If the majority of the population are not psychopaths, why does capitalism work and not communism? Why is free market capitalism so effective at allocating resources? Why is a strong middle class essential to the prosperity of the US economy?
QUESTION: IF the construction industry in Brazil in 1995 was reporting no growth, why did sales of cement increase in the same year by more than 20 per cent? Why do peasants at the source of the Amazon take huge risks by growing coca for the international drug market when they could ...
a The Grinch: Can I use your finger for a sec?[translate] aThis is why entrepreneurial capitalism does not work in developing countries, and why we end up with severe income inequality. 这就是为什么企业资本主义在发展中国家不运作,并且为什么我们最终获得严厉收入不平等。[translate]...
Why does automation and the future of work turn capitalism naturally towards socialism? Why don't modern economies, like the U.S., allow interest rates to be set by the free market? Why many economists argue that the free market benefits both sides of the market?
摘要: Reviews two books related to capitalism. "The Invention of Capitalism," by Michael Perelman; "The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else," by Hernando De Soto.被引量: 56 年份: 2001
Topic 1:Why we need to rethink capitalism By Paul Tudor Jones II #Background about our speaker Paul Jones is founder of Tudor Investment Corporation and an active philanthropist! #Why you should listenPaul Tudor Jones II started to work on Wall Street in 1976. "If there was ever a free ...
The last four chapters have provided systematic reasons and empirical evidence for the thesis that socialism as a social system that is not thoroughly based on the “natural theory of property” (the first-use-first-own rule) which characterizes capitalism must necessarily be, and in fact is, ...
thought that some of their co-workers might be spending more time making cabinets, and not doing their fair share of the fish-frying responsibilities, that before long there’s endless piles of useless badly cooked fish piling up all over the workshop and it’s all that anyone really does....
I don't see working on ads generally as any more distasteful than most jobs in capitalism, but Google has monopolized ads to a point that has significantly harmed newsmaking. Nobody can make money running a news website anymore; fifteen years ago, they could run those sites on ad money ...
The answer lies, in large part, with the rise of rentier capitalism. In this case “rent” means rewards over and above those required to induce the desired supply of goods, services, land or labour. “Rentier capitalism” means an economy in which market and political power allows privileg...