He is the grandson of Kim Il-sung, who was the founder and first leader of North Korea from 1948 to 1994. Kim is the first North Korean leader who was born after the country's founding, and is also the second youngest currently-serving head of government in the wo...
Critics of Blair denounced him for bringing the Labour Party towards the perceived centre ground of British politics, abandoning 'genuine' socialism and being too amenable to capitalism. Supporters, including the party's public opinion pollster Philip Gould, stated that (after four consecutive general...
Styled as Her Serene Highness The Princess of Monaco and commonly referred to as Princess Grace. John D. Rockefeller (July 8, 1839 – May 23, 1937). American industrialist and philanthropist. He was the founder of the Standard Oil Company. World's first US$-billionaire. Net worth in today...
–Guy Standing, author ofThe Precariat: The New Dangerous Class, The Corruption of Capitalism, and Basic Income: A Guide for the Open-Minded “Who CaresWins is a journey into the anthropology of radical optimism. Lily Cole delicately unpicks the silver linings from some of the many dark clou...
He founded Patagonia in 1973 to reflect his idealistic priorities, and was a first mover in sustainability and stakeholder capitalism. In 2002, Patagonia began giving away 1% of its sales each year to grassroots environmental movements. (This will stay as part of the business model under the new...
“amative” sex. During the latter, men practiced male continence, or coitus reservatus, which Oneida founder John Humphrey Noyes considered more pleasurable, contraceptive, and generally healthy for men, as semen loss was thought to provoke anxiety. Of male c...
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
1、Except being a victory of England overSpain,the rout of the fleet “Armanda”(invincible) was also the triumph of the rising young bourgeoisie over the declining old feudation. 2、Sonnetis defined as an expression of human emotion which is condensed into fourteen lines. 3、Thomas Wyattwas...
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. Ho...
s thinking. Thiel was a co-founder of PayPal with Elon Musk, and the alums from PayPal, the so-called “PayPal Mafia,” are hugely influential in Silicon Valley today, though they are not entirely aligned with Big Tech. Thiel, for instance, hates Google, and this group is...