jobs have had to be created that are, effectively, pointless. Huge swathes of people, in Europe and North America in particular, spend their entire working lives performing tasks they secretly believe do not really need to be performed. The moral and spiritual damage that comes from this situat...
Why was the National Forest System created? Why did capitalism emerge from the Industrial Revolution? Why was the Director of National Intelligence created? Why did forced labor continue after the Civil War? Why does the president need a cabinet? Why was feudalism developed? Why was the Food St...
HOW CAPITALISM WAS SAVED AND WHY SOCIALISM FAILED/Trpe Gruevski
Capitalism has created more prosperity and progress for more people than any system in human history. On the 30th anniversary of the official end of the Soviet Union, join the National Post and Financial Post in a series saluting the unfashionable yet awesome power of the free-market system....
Why was the Department of the Treasury created? Why is the Amazon River called the Ocean River? Why are we assured that when the money and product markets are in equilibrium, the bond market will be in equilibrium as well? Why is linguistics called the scientific study of language?
C.2 Why is capitalism exploitative? For anarchists, capitalism is marked by the exploitation of labour by capital. While this is most famously expressed by Proudhon’s "property is theft," this perspective can be found in all forms of anarchism. For Bakunin, capitalism was marked by an "eco...
it should be noted that the workers, through long and bitter political struggles, have succeeded in securing a somewhat improved form of the “free labor contract” for certain categories of workers. But taken as a whole, the present day economy does not differ much from “pure” capitalism....
“The markets, predictably, were overjoyed,” from the first passage I quoted. Note how the statement is dripping with sarcasm. You’d think it was uttered by someone like Paul Krugman. But no, it wasForbesmagazine, the self-styled “capitalist tool.” With friends likeForbescapitalism ...
How was the Meiji Restoration not capitalism-based? Why did the shoguns close off Japan to the wider world? Was Japan a feudal society? How did Tokugawa shogunate influence Japanese society and culture? What were the consequences of isolation in feudal Japan? What trends characterized the politica...
especially in the United States. But before we look at the current issues, I’d love to talk about the good times. So is there a period that you can point to when capitalism was in its heyday, or really