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Boeke believed in a stark separation between the modern, capitalist style of economic organization that prevailed in the West and the pre-capitalist, traditional mode that predominated in what were then called “underdeveloped areas.”
The EU vision of a capitalist economy harnessed to social progress and subject to regulation, rather than laissez-faire, is growing in influence.
Today the US federal government is the world’s biggest venture capitalist by far.
Almost nobody believed that Russia would go so far, so fast, in its democratic and capitalist development.
Kennan argued that long-term peace between the capitalist West and communist Russia was impossible, owing to the mixture of traditional Russian insecurity, Stalin’s need for an external enemy, and communist messianism.
Both spirit and the necessary financial institutions must be present to enable "creative destruction" - the force Joseph Schumpeter argued sixty years was the engine of capitalist prosperity - to be unleashed.
The global capitalist system has produced a very uneven playing field.
If the entrepreneur is focused on a small but needy market, the venture capitalist will suggest shifting focus, whereas the philanthropist will help him figure out how to serve that market effectively.
To be sure, income inequality and social injustice are a concomitant of capitalist culture throughout the West.
Keynes did say – and it was a very important insight – that a capitalist economy resembles a beauty contest, with judges voting not for the most beautiful contestant, but for the contestant whom they believe their colleagues will find most beautiful.
More broadly, the emblematic defeat of Marxism in 1989 allowed Asian countries, including China and India, to pursue capitalist policies overtly.
The third task is to focus on real economic activity, end the recession, sustain growth, and, above all, reform the capitalist system to make it be less dependent on finance.
He is now a venture capitalist who evangelizes about the growing importance of software in business today.
Unhappy with the capitalist consumer society that was metastasizing all around them, West European and American students attacked the system from far-left positions.
Like most Russians, he wanted the material advantages of capitalism, but had little respect or understanding for the rule of law and dispersion of power, which makes capitalist institutions work.
Europe, like America - indeed, like the entire capitalist world - must now become more hawkish in demanding prosecution and punishment of bosses who loot their companies.
Capitalist economies produce inequality, often large ones.
A prominent venture capitalist, Tim Draper, wants to put a proposition on the ballot to split California into six separate states.
If the venture capitalist Tim Draper had succeeded in his misguided initiative to divide California into six states, Silicon Valley would have become the richest state in the US, and the Central Valley the poorest.
For Russians, America was an evil empire, the world of capitalist exploitation and a nuclear superpower, but also a cradle of economic prosperity and individual freedom.
A final science of man has no room for the unplanned and unpredictable recovery that is the only kind a capitalist economy can have after a crisis of this size.
I told him that many Americans also think capitalist practices are unfair.
After the Death of UtopiaA decade ago, people spoke of the end of history, meaning the ultimate triumph of a liberal capitalist political order.
To be sure, rent-seeking and favor-dispensing corruption exist to some degree everywhere; but they are more widespread in developing than developed countries and in resource-rich and/or centrally planned economies than in capitalist democracies.
An independent judiciary, financial disclosure by government officials, and other independent institutions have been essential to limiting and forestalling – though not fully eliminating – corruption in the United States and most other advanced capitalist democracies.
This changed dramatically with the Chinese government’s restoration of a capitalist economy.
Instead of integrating India into the global capitalist system, as only a handful of post-colonial countries – for example, Singapore – chose to do, India’s leaders (and those of most former colonies) were convinced that the political independence that they had fought for could be guaranteed only through economic independence.
Other examples from Surowiecki: “the venture capitalist Tom Perkins and Kenneth Langone, the co-founder of Home Depot, both compared populist attacks on the wealthy to the Nazis’ attacks on the Jews.”
But no actually existing capitalist market system spontaneously generates justice in exchange.
Here, too, such efforts – which disprove claims that the EU is nothing more than a club of neoliberal capitalist elites – must be publicized more effectively.
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