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Such an approach would ensure that those who benefit from Putin’s crony capitalism could not launder their money and shelter their families in the West.
These parties and movements share a sense that native-born citizens have been let down by liberal political elites, who seem unable or unwilling to stem the tide of immigration, crime, and Islamist militancy, as well as the erosion of national sovereignty by EU bureaucracy and global capitalism.
Capitalism's High NoonEurope's Enron-induced schadenfreude is kaput.
Sadly, nowadays, things as disparate as highly paid executives, the Enron and Parmalat scandals, contested mergers and acquisitions, stock market volatility, "junk bonds," and asset-price bubbles are all lumped together under the snide heading "cowboy capitalism."
In many developing countries, weak regulators and a widespread perception of corruption often stand in the way of pro-market reforms; the left (populist or otherwise) can credibly argue that capitalism is "corrupt" and so must be taken under the wing of the government.
This is a big reason why market capitalism has such a hard time taking root in the developing word.
The Parmalat scandal may have been a blow to global capitalism, but in Italy it is hoped that it might sound the death knell for an economic system traditionally based much more on "connections" amongst private groups - and between these groups and the public sector - than on competitive markets.
Clean capitalism needs the same sort of widespread engagement.
Under free market capitalism we can, at long last, live up to the communist ideal, "The whole Soviet nation like one man!"
Postwar European social democracy was always a compromise with capitalism.
One might say that by compromising with capitalism too much, the third-way leaders compromised themselves.
Meanwhile, emerging-market commodity exporters failed to take advantage of the windfall and implement market-oriented structural reforms in the last decade; on the contrary, many of them embraced state capitalism, giving too large a role to state-owned enterprises and banks.
Writing in the nineteenth century, Karl Marx famously observed inequality trends in his day and concluded that capitalism could not indefinitely sustain itself politically.
Contrary to his predictions, capitalism spawned ever-higher standards of living for more than a century, while attempts to implement radically different systems have fallen spectacularly short.
Big Ideas from Small CountriesCAMBRIDGE – Two decades ago, many people thought that the lesson of the 1980’s was that Japan’s variant of capitalism was the best model, and that other countries around the world should and would follow it.
A decade ago, many thought that the lesson of the 1990’s was that the United States’ variant of capitalism was the best model, and that other countries should and would follow.
Will a free market flourish, or will oligarchic capitalism serve the interests of the few?
Two Cheers for the Rhineland ModelNot so long ago, Germans and other Continental Europeans pointed to America's "working poor," as well as to the sorry state of public services in Britain, as defects that supposedly reflected the inevitable price Anglo-Saxon countries must pay for their ruthless form of capitalism.
In Germany, "capitalism unmodified" has begun its reign.
But the capitalism that formed the Rhineland model's other component also changed, and here it is not wrong to blame globalization.
Because China continues to favor state capitalism and discriminates against the private sector, it lacks strong private firms that can take on Western multinational giants.
After three decades of spectacular economic growth, many Malays have become prosperous and content not only through secular capitalism, but through the country’s renewed sense of Islamic identity, one which – for the most part – embraced modernization.
But those countries endured their post-communist hardships, because their leaders and enough of their people believed in the promise of free-market capitalism.
If they are seen as profiting unduly from the rescue, even as they return to their bad old ways of paying for non-performance, they will undermine political support for the rescue – and perhaps even for capitalism.
Cries that this is not capitalism should be met with a firm retort: “Nor are bailouts!”
By 1942 when a 59-year-old Schumpeter published the book Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy, he realized that a lot of the innovation was coming from very large corporations that faced rather limited competition.
Capitalism is, among other things, a struggle between individual people over the control of scarce resources.
The move from communism to capitalism in Russia after 1991 was supposed to bring unprecedented prosperity.
A transition that lasts two decades, during which poverty and inequality increase enormously as a few become wealthy, cannot be called a victory for capitalism or democracy.
And Israel, contrary to North Korea – a regime doomed to disappear into a single Korea united by freedom and capitalism – is here to stay.
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