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So China may be edging towards a whole new way of interacting with the world and dealing with its people; its curious authoritarian capitalism may be inching towards some new, and possibly viable, model for long-term development.
In Western Europe and the United States, early capitalism drew huge numbers of young, single women into industries like textiles.
By the time Friedan’s book was published in 1963, capitalism was drawing married women into the expanding service, clerical, and information sectors.
And, thanks to the large pool of savings generated by Chinese households and state-owned companies, the Chinese economy can for the time being bear the waste and misallocation implied by such crony capitalism.
Much has changed, thanks to global capitalism, European integration, the stigmatization of national feeling by two catastrophic world wars, and, perhaps most importantly, the widespread loss of religious faith.
As a result, corporate capitalism is rapidly becoming obsolete, replaced by a creative capitalism in which entrepreneurship, combined with a greater willingness to adopt innovations, transforms the business landscape.
Russia’s Oligarchs-in-WaitingSTOCKHOLM – Under President Vladimir Putin, cronyism has replaced Russia’s once-burgeoning capitalism.
Crony capitalism, corruption, weak rule of law, lack of transparency, inadequate financial regulation and prudential supervision, poor corporate governance, non-enforcement of bankruptcy procedures, an insufficiently open capital account, overly-ambitious industrial policies -- these were the features of Asian countries that supposedly precipitated the Asian financial crisis.
American Crony Capitalists Go to WarWhen financial crisis hit Asia in 1997, America's leaders charged Asian governments with practicing crony capitalism.
As the Bank of England’s Governor Mark Carney (who I assume also heard Murdoch’s lecture) remarked earlier this year, “[U]nchecked market fundamentalism can devour the social capital essential for the long-term dynamism of capitalism itself.”
He knew that the shift from centrally planned egalitarian socialism toward market-oriented capitalism could destabilize the CCP’s rule, and the unequal accumulation of wealth in the short term could cause significant social and political division.
In the so-called “kitchen debate” of 1959 – one of the Cold War’s weirdest moments – Nixon sparred with Khrushchev in Moscow over the superiority of capitalism over socialism.
But, whatever his motives, the anxiety that led up to Argentina's last minute deal with the IMF to repay $3.1 billion owed the global lender may serve to help to rescue what capitalism is really about: the appropriate judgment of risk.
Despite China’s embrace of capitalism and Japanese investment, Japan remains China’s reviled other.
The New Delhi ConsensusNEW DELHI – One of the more remarkable (though largely unremarked) developments in recent Indian politics has been the startling shift in the country’s discourse about capitalism.
Whereas most Westerners axiomatically associate capitalism with freedom, India’s nationalists associated it with slavery.
After all, the British East India Company, that harbinger of capitalism, had come to trade and stayed to rule.
The rise of authoritarian capitalism – best symbolized by China, but also embraced by countries as disparate as Malaysia, Singapore, Kazakhstan, and Qatar – has created a new model that competes with (and challenges) liberal democracy.
Obviously, the traditional moral taboos surrounding money had to be loosened for capitalism to get going centuries ago.
In the West, capitalism and democracy progressed in tandem, as the development of markets reduced the power of landlords and increased that of the working and middle classes.
The Moral Vulnerability of MarketsLONDON -- Today, there seems to be no coherent alternative to capitalism, yet anti-market feelings are alive and well, expressed for example in the moralistic backlash against globalization.
Capitalism is also held to lack a principle of justice.
It has often been claimed that capitalism rewards the qualities of self-restraint, hard-work, inventiveness, thrift, and prudence.
The paradox of capitalism is that it converts avarice, greed, and envy into virtues.
We are told that capitalism discovers wants that people did not realize they had and thus moves humanity forward.
Not everyone wanted to be modern, of course, and not everyone could put in place the institutions and policies necessary to make democracy and capitalism work, but no alternative system would yield better results.
The reason is simple: the lack of credible property rights under Putin’s system of crony capitalism forces senior Russian officials and oligarchs to hold their money abroad, largely within the jurisdictions of the Western governments against which Putin rails.
The far left indicts capitalism; the far right points the finger of blame at immigrants.
Does it mean following the West (as liberals advocate) or, as the neo-leftists suggest, is there some Third Way between Communism and western-style democratic capitalism?
Capitalism when it arose three centuries ago was simply the same activity on a larger scale.
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