Sentences with phrase «system of global capitalism»

«But we need the political establishment in this country to stop slagging off a sector that is utterly crucial to the British economy and the current system of global capitalism — and after four years of navel - gazing since the crash, we have yet to come up with an alternative.»

The connection between raw material and its consumption by the immaterial systems of global capitalism is the main theme running through Metal, a group show of five artists at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, which forms part of the AV Festival, a biennial programme of art, film and music in the northeast of England, now in its sixth iteration.

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Global Capitalism is trapped in its own Prisoner's Dilemma; forty four years after the end of the Bretton Woods System global central banks have manipulated the cost of risk in a competition of devaluation leading to a dangerous build up in debt and leverage, lower risk premiums, income disparity, and greater probability of tail events on both sides of the return distribGlobal Capitalism is trapped in its own Prisoner's Dilemma; forty four years after the end of the Bretton Woods System global central banks have manipulated the cost of risk in a competition of devaluation leading to a dangerous build up in debt and leverage, lower risk premiums, income disparity, and greater probability of tail events on both sides of the return distribglobal central banks have manipulated the cost of risk in a competition of devaluation leading to a dangerous build up in debt and leverage, lower risk premiums, income disparity, and greater probability of tail events on both sides of the return distribution.

Defenders of global capitalism argue that in time the impoverishment of the poor will end and the great abundance generated by the system will benefit all.

If China is tied more and more fully into the global system, it will be drawn into the current patterns of financial capitalism.

And in fact, we can learn a lesson from its defeat in terms of the strength of capitalism as a global system, which used all political and military means at its disposal to bring about the downfall of socialism.

As capital moves freely, investing in production or in fictitious forms of capitalism, and as speculators, financier capitalists, stock and bond traders, investment bankers, hedge fund mangers, and others help to unleash the forces of capital accumulation globally, and as neo-liberalism with its aggressive pro-market state policies allows this finance capital to restructure itself, to diversify its forms, to expand its accumulation opportunities through the growth of retail, financial and service industries, and enhance its global reach, then it is safe to assume that our ecosystems have been harnessed exploitatively in a system of capitalist commodity production such that we can not talk about capitalism at all without talking about capitalism as a world ecology.

You can expect to see lessons in propaganda as the educational norm — teachers will be obliged to extoll the wonders of free market capitalism and the American business system; they will be forced to speak in favor of the nation's latest wars; and perhaps there will be lessons devoted to creation science and the lie of global climate change.

Author Walter Mosley explores the mysteries of life, labor and freedom in the 21st century - from the failures of global capitalism and the impossibility of socialism, to technology's toll on humanity's understanding of itself, its needs and its limitations - and explains why building a future that serves humankind starts with destroying the ideological frames that reduce people to servants of a system, not masters of their potential.

Author Walter Mosley explores the mysteries of life, labor and freedom in the 21st century — from the failures of global capitalism and the impossibility of socialism, to technology's toll on humanity's understanding of itself, its needs and its limitations — and explains why building a future that serves humankind starts with destroying the ideological frames that reduce people to servants of a system, not masters of their potential.

Originally from Hong Kong and based in Taiwan, Lee frequently imparts political commentary in his work through an embedded use of foreign products and English words that reference the omnipresence of market capitalism surrounding Hong Kong's history as a global city living under the principle of one country, two systems.

Steyerl's work addresses global capitalism and militarism and the way in which images consolidate systems of control, while intimating that autonomous action and even disobedience are still possible.

Siegel's work typically brings a critical, global perspective to systems of capitalism.

Farmers, unions, social organizations, indigenous peoples, women and youth (at the national, regional and global level) have come together to demand climate justice and fight against the consumerist and extractivist model that, along with the capitalism and neoliberalism systems of the modern world, is harming Mother Earth.

Building on this critique, Speth goes on to conclude in his book that: (1) «today's system of political economy, referred to here as modern capitalism, is destructive of the environment, and not in a minor way but in a way that profoundly threatens the planet» (2) «the affluent societies have reached or soon will reach the point where, as Keynes put it, the economic problem has been solved... there is enough to go around» (3) «in the more affluent societies, modern capitalism is no longer enhancing human well - being» (4) «the international social movement for change — which refers to itself as «the irresistible rise of global anti-capitalism» — is stronger than many imagine and will grow stronger; there is a coalescing of forces: peace, social justice, community, ecology, feminism — a movement of movements» (5) «people and groups are busily planting the seeds of change through a host of alternative arrangements, and still other attractive directions for upgrading to a new operating system have been identified» (6) «the end of the Cold War... opens the door... for the questioning of today's capitalism.»

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.

But it was during the post-World World II era of U.S. - led global corporate monopolies and emergent multinational capitalism that humanity forever altered earth systems in ways that pose grave and fundamental threats to life on the planet.