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Without competition, capitalism works only a little better than socialism did.
The real challenge is to build free-market, rule-based capitalism.
And, to do that, an energetic civil society must demand an end to crony capitalism.
Détente helped to keep the competition from spilling over into conflict as it exposed the Communist world to Western ideas of freedom and capitalism along with their benefits.
On one hand, capitalism offers the best safeguard of individual freedom, choice, and entrepreneurial initiative.
Carnegie’s treatise, an American classic, provides a moral justification for the concentration of wealth that capitalism tends to create by arguing that immense wealth leads to well-spent charitable contributions and support of the arts and sciences.
The great virtue of capitalism is that it adapts to ruinous conditions and even finds ways of turning them to advantage.
The question we examined is how to achieve happiness in a world that is characterized by rapid urbanization, mass media, global capitalism, and environmental degradation.
Fourth, global capitalism presents many direct threats to happiness.
To a country that had struggled for decades against British imperialism, however, neither capitalism nor openness to foreign investors seemed a prudent course.
Capitalism’s New ClothesMELBOURNE – Is the global financial crisis an opportunity to forge a new form of capitalism based on sound values?
At a symposium in Paris last month entitled “New World, New Capitalism,” Sarkozy described capitalism based on financial speculation as “an immoral system” that has “perverted the logic of capitalism.”
He argued that capitalism needs to find new moral values and to accept a stronger role for governments.
Their “state capitalism” – a large role for state-owned companies; an even larger role for state-owned banks; resource nationalism; import-substitution industrialization; and financial protectionism and controls on foreign direct investment – is the heart of the problem.
Cheerleaders of the private sector, however, failed to reckon with the ability of company bosses to indulge in corrupt practices on an almost unfathomable scale, something American corporate capitalism has demonstrated amply of late.
It is no surprise that the results of so simplistic a policy prescription were often illiberal democracy and crony capitalism.
For illiberal democracy and crony capitalism flourish where the institutional framework is lacking or corrupted.
Crony capitalism can be understood as a system, which, though based on some market relations and private ownership, fails to respect such important rules as the enforce-ability of law, free and fair competition, equality of opportunity, protection of ownership, transparency, and public control.
Crony capitalism is a system that gives free rein to phenomena such as hidden connections between political and economic power, corruption, clientelism, and embezzlement.
Is it possible to break the cycle of illiberal democracy and crony capitalism?
What we are experiencing today is the natural repercussion of the implosion of centrist politics, owing to a crisis of global capitalism in which a financial crash led to a Great Recession and then to today’s Great Deflation.
That “golden era” ended with the so-called Nixon shock in 1971, when America lost the surpluses that, recycled internationally, kept global capitalism stable.
And the timing couldn’t have been more congenial: the Soviet empire’s collapse and China’s opening generated a surge of labor supply for global capitalism – a billion additional workers – that boosted profits and stifled wage growth throughout the West.
Already committed to reforming his country’s crony capitalism, he now has a mandate to challenge Merkel’s crisis response.
Ukraine is thus becoming a dangerous mix of authoritarianism and corrupt capitalism.
In June, speaking at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum, Medvedev mesmerized his audience by simultaneously sounding avant-garde and hackneyed: he attacked corruption, vowed that Russia is not “building state capitalism,” and promised legal and federal reforms.
The world is discovering capitalism and its power to transform economies.
But capitalism relies on good faith.
Each also espouses a form of “illiberal capitalism.”
But what does illiberal capitalism entail, and how compatible is it with illiberal democracy?
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