The two economic freedoms led straight to the heresy
of free enterprise capitalism — and yet without them any meaningful freedom is impossible.
Three come to mind at once: (1) the company's immediate self - interest, (2) the logic
of free enterprise capitalism, and (3) the bias of technological reason towards efficiency.
Not exact matches
but I doubt if he would have shared their celebration
of capitalism or their tendency to see
free enterprise as almost morally self - sufficient.
My personal belief is that democratic,
free enterprise capitalism can provide a higher standard
of living and more freedom than the socialist alternatives and can still be responsible in providing for those who are unable to provide for themselves.
Thus the competition and the «efficiencies
of the marketplace» that are often thought
of as intrinsic to
capitalism are in fact present only in
free enterprise capitalism and not in elite
capitalism.
The question is, does responsible,
free enterprise capitalism provide sufficient equality
of opportunity?
There are two principal types
of socialism: «full socialism» in which the state owns all (or the vast majority)
of business and industry and controls production and marketing decisions through central planning; and «partial socialism», in which the state owns major businesses deemed to be essential to the national good, and / or subsidizes certain industries to save them from the impact
of competition, and provides certain goods and services deemed to be essential at reduced or no cost, but still allows major sectors
of the economy to operate as
free enterprise capitalism.
In the struggle against such a system, what is being proposed as an alternative is not the socialist system, which in fact turns out to be state
capitalism, but rather a society
of free work,
of enterprise and
of participation.
I am a Christian and a believer in
free enterprise — in the same
Capitalism that is the base
of all
of Ayn Rand's novels and nonfiction.
The most common
of these identifications is the assumption that «the American way
of life,» meaning American
capitalism and the
free enterprise system, is ordained
of God and any challenge to it a form
of both political and religious subversion.
Coming out
of the 1960s, therefore, conservative Protestant theology including that
of the evangelical broadcasters was strong in its affirmation
of traditional American culture, including the values
of free -
enterprise capitalism and the validity
of capitalism's monetary rewards.
Probably the most disturbing feature
of Betsy DeVos and her supporters is that they are ideologues who ascribe to the
capitalism /
free enterprise (choice) concepts as the solution to all problems.
Stock ownership is one
of the foundations
of capitalism and a
free enterprise system.
I think it explains, indirectly at least, why
capitalism and market driven systems need not be destroyed (as some here have maintained) because they are insufficient it some areas, but rather should be supplemented in those areas that
capitalism or
free private
enterprise (a major part
of individual freedoms) is not designed for or hasn't the wherewithal to handle (ala tragedy
of the commons) by appropriate government intervention, rule making, or regulation..
Murphy has written more than 100 articles for the layman on
free - market economics and is the author
of numerous books, including Choice: Cooperation,
Enterprise, and Human Action (Independent Institute, 2015), Lessons for the Young Economist (Mises Institute, 2010), and The Politically Incorrect Guide to
Capitalism (Regnery, 2007).
The only real global warming problem we have now is the army
of government - funded academics who have erected a Tower
of Babel to make war on
capitalism and the
free enterprise system.
When you realize that the U.S. is the Saudi Arabia
of natural gas and coal the artificial shortages that have been created by those who oppose
free enterprise capitalism are a lot like the illegal tacticts used by others over the years to run up commodity prices using monopolistic practices.
The aim
of Leftist Big Government bureaucracy and EPA energy policy is to criminalize the practice
of productive
free enterprise capitalism.
Who among hot climatists will want to commit to writing a desire to collaborate in figuring out a way to discredit the more accurate satellite data that shows no global warming going on 2 decades in preference to greater reliance on the use
of massaged land - based temperature records that support the global warming alarmists» meme that
free enterprise capitalism is destroying the Earth?
It is their right and ingenuity to take advantage
of capitalism in all its forms to create
free enterprise out
of it.