Microsoft, the behemoth of Windows and Office, was fast approaching its 40th anniversary. It had the kind of cash reserves that military dictators kill for and the market share of business-school dreams. But none of the new products the company had produced under its second CEO—from its Bing...
Famous philosophers like Socrates, Karl Marx, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Ayn Rand have challenged the way we consider the world and our place in it.
A Monetary History of the United States, Milton Friedman, and co-author Anna Schwartz argued it wasmonetary policy, and not a failure of free-market capitalism, that led to theGreat Depression.3
He was the founder of the cities of Northfield, Minnesota and Riverside, California, where John W. North High School and the John W. North Water Treatment Plant are located and named after him. He also received a Presidential appointment to Nevada's highest court, the predecessor of the ...
Keynes' father was an advocate oflaissez-faire economics, an economic philosophy offree-marketcapitalism that opposes government intervention. Keynes himself was a conventional believer in the principles of the free market (and an active investor in the stock market) during his time at Cambridge. ...
“In 2019, it became a symbol for the ‘gentle capitalism’ that Mr. Zuckerberg has recently railed against.” The group’s priority at the time aimed at going beyond the interests of shareholders and investing “in their employees, protect the environment and deal fairly and ethically with ...
and it’s not too soon to start the conversation about it,” says McAfee. But it’s also, he acknowledges, a prospect that is many decades away. Meanwhile, he advocates pro-growth policies “to prove me wrong.” He says, “The genius of capitalism is that people find things to do. ...
Who created the cultural identity theory? Who makes economic decisions in capitalism? Who created modernization theory? Who developed the functionalist theory of sociology? What is the economic theory of entrepreneurship? What is capitalist political economy?
The day before the Wiz deal, Israel resumed its genocide of Gaza with an unhinged bloodthirsty rampage, the deadliest twenty-four hours in the last nearly eighteen months of genocide. A high bar had been set, and it was cleared. They attacked at night, itself an act of utter cowardice and...
In some respects, the bimbo hasn’t changed much since the naissance of the term in the early 20th century, when it was used to describe both men and women with diminished intellectual capacities. (The male equivalents, “himbo” and “mimbo,” wouldn’t come to being in the lexicon until...