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Small and medium sized firms need to become part of Mexican capitalism.
When Barnier was appointed, French President Nicolas Sarkozy described it as a “defeat for Anglo-Saxon capitalism.”
But there is a crucial distinction: what is fueling inequality now is not unfettered capitalism, but problematic public-policy efforts to stabilize economies in the wake of the financial crisis.
In 2012, the venture capitalist William Janeway argued that economic development is a three-player game involving the state, private entrepreneurial innovation, and financial capitalism, with inevitable cyclical overshoots that create the conditions for the next wave of invention and output growth.
In China – and in Russia (and partly in Brazil and India) – state capitalism has become more entrenched, which does not bode well for growth.
Among emerging economies, China could face a hard landing by late 2014 if critical structural reforms are postponed, and the other BRICs need to turn away from state capitalism.
Third and most importantly, America has created vast public enthusiasm for capitalism and self-responsibility while in Germany the government is still expected to be the answer of last resort.
Chinese-style capitalism is flaunting its defiance of one Confucius’ basic teachings—don’t worry about poverty, he warned, worry about inequality.
Indeed, there is a legitimate question whether the behavior of today’s capitalists promotes the general acceptance of capitalism.
One was to adopt the principles of Western capitalism, allow foreign capital to flow in, and exploit the comparative advantage of cheap local labor resources to find a niche in the emerging globalized economy.
Here an irony intrudes: under socialism private markets were crushed by the state; under capitalism, markets function well only when the state provides a nourishing legal/institutional environment.
The robber barons’ capitalism rampant throughout much of the postcommunist world is abundant proof of this.
A clearly designated “enemy” with an unmistakable “plan” is psychologically more comforting than the chaotic evolution of social norms and the workings – or failures – of unfettered capitalism.
Even social democracy, which, particularly in Scandinavia, was an excellent regulator of capitalism, found itself muted in the controversy between Keynesians and monetarists, and, throughout the developed world, the monetarists won.
Pundits like to blame "Asian capitalism" for the crisis — an alleged orgy of corruption, nepotism, government meddling, and poor financial supervision.
If Asian capitalism is so bad, why did foreign investors put so much money into Asia in the first place?
And, if more evidence were needed, the countries that embraced capitalism in the twentieth century went on to become democratic, open, and prosperous societies.
By contrast, every regime that has rejected capitalism in the name of Marxism has failed – and not by coincidence or as a result of some unfortunate doctrinal misunderstanding on the part of Marx’s followers.
Moreover, it was not Russian President Vladimir Putin who created the ethical crisis afflicting Western capitalism.
Hard questions are being asked: Is capitalism as we know it doomed?
Is China’s brand of state capitalism an alternative and potentially victorious paradigm?
Indeed, it is increasingly obvious that the threat to capitalism today emanates not from the state’s presence, but rather from its absence or inadequate performance.
An efficient judiciary and effective policing are necessary for capitalism to thrive.
In Asia, China is exposing the fallacy of looking at state capitalism as a competing alternative to liberal capitalism.
Approaching them as alternatives is, in fact, little more than an intellectual remnant of the Cold War, much like the concept of “state capitalism” itself.
In a world free of that era’s ideological constraints, it is time to say loud and clear that the future of capitalism is linked to effective governance and the rule of law, and thus to the consolidation of well-functioning states.
After all, no one is advocating a return to unfettered free-market capitalism for healthcare, with all its serious distributional inequities.
The Promise of Fiscal MoneyATHENS – Western capitalism has few sacred cows left.
With the rise of inter-bank money, backed mostly by government debt, fiscal policy has become an essential factor in determining the quantity of actual money lubricating modern capitalism.
On one side is a social-democratic vision, which basically favors the market economy but seeks to alleviateits harsher effects; on the other side stands a radical vision that extols a revolutionary “break with capitalism.”
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