The author reflects on issues related to African Americans and the crisis of capitalism in the U.S. According to the author, African Americans are subject to the mass propaganda by which the monopoly of news gathering and distribution make democratic government nearly impossible by denying knowledge...
During the 1999 Battle of Seattle, the movement focused on opposing neoliberalism (Graeber 2002) and advocating for alternative visions of globalization (Reitan 2012). Some activists also noted the hypocrisy of opening borders to capital while militarizing the borders for migrants. Yet, in the end,...
Democratic capitalism in the United States. Though democracy and capitalism are both central to American identity, they admit of a deep and often unnoticed philosophical contradiction. The capitalist... M O'Connor - The University of Texas at Austin.$bAmerican Studies. 被引量: 0发表: 2007年 ...
As such, state capitalist enterprises—the anathema of current political and economic discourse in the United States—have taken on a large and rather important role. In doing so, public authorities have brought a (not so) little of the former USSR into the American heartland.doi:10.1080/...
And here athome,freemarketcapitalismiswhattransformedAmericafromaruggedfrontier to thegreatesteconomicpowerinhistory. 在国内,正是自由市场资本主义使美国由崎岖的地理大国成为世界最大的经济体。 blog.sina.com.cn 5. Iknow,you'reprobablysaying"we'veneverhadpure, free-marketcapitalismintheUnited States"and I...
1.An economic system essentially based on the private ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange. 2.An economic system in which the means of production are privately owned and producers compete to maximize their profits. ...
Indeed, capitalism has evolved in keeping with the changing nature of the economy itself, including the role of capital and labor, trade and monetary policy, and changing ideas about the political economy. The neoliberal model of capitalism present in the United States today and to varying ...
The article examines international perception of capitalism in the United States. Throughout the world there has been an organized Communist campaign to discredit capitalism and the United States as the leading exponent of capitalism. In the Soviet Union, Communist China and other countries with a ...
The power of organized labor in the United States, measured by union representation in the labor force, political influence in Congress, and by public support for trade unions, has been in decline for two decades. During the 1980s a historic shift in political, economic and social power in ...
In the United States and Europe, the government also intervenes withfiscal and monetary policiesto jump-start the economy or slow it down. These policies are meant to keep the economy in equilibrium and avoid extremes in inflation or deflation. They are meant to influence supply and demand ...