Not exact matches
In the forthcoming Victories of
Reason, Stark will attribute to Christian rationality and advocacy nothing less than the emergence of
capitalism (pioneered
by medieval monks, not industrious Protestants) and the foundational principles of equality and individual liberty that informed that most conspicuous Western achievement of all: modern republican democracy.
In this model, the modern epoch is characterized
by an abandonment of the three - tiered or dualistic universe of traditional religion, a reliance on scientific and technical
reasoning, and increasing intervention
by the state to promote advanced industrial
capitalism and to combat its ill effects on social life.
That Marr imagines that the evils caused
by capitalist «excesses» are a «betrayal» of something more essential to
capitalism, rather than just natural expressions of the possibilities inherent within it, demonstrates a deep incoherence in his
reasoning.
None of the elite organisations like Unlock Democracy or the UCL Constitution Unit have ever proposed anything as definite as the «Plan for the Establishment of a National Bank» published posthumously so long ago as 1824
by the icon of laissez - faire
capitalism, David Ricardo, who
reasoned that the stock of money would be best originated
by a public institution.
The second
reason is a non-ecological argument in terms of the rise in socio - economic inequalities caused
by policies promoting economic growth under
capitalism.
Indeed, for owners, the
reason there is government is to set standards to maintain an orderly Market whereby
Capitalism can maximize satisfaction and minimize misery
by exchange of fair value in an economy.