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Capitalism may even be identical with the restraint, or at least a rational tempering, of this irrational impulse. But capitalism is identical with the pursuit of profit, and forever renewed profit, by means of continuous, rational, capitalistic enterprise. For it must be so: in a wholly capitalistic order of society, an individual capitalistic ...
According to Fisher, the quotation "it is easier to imagine an end to the world than an end to capitalism", attributed to both Fredric Jameson and Slavoj Žižek, encompasses the essence of capitalist realism. Capitalist realism is loosely defined as the predominant conception that capitalism is the only viable economic system, and thus there ...
Robert LeFevre, an American libertarian and primary theorist of autarchism, defined capitalism as savings and capital—in essence—as savings made by men, which are then invested in the tools of production. [2] Some proponents of capitalism (like Milton Friedman) emphasize the role of free markets, which, they claim, promote freedom and ...
The extraordinary economic growth experienced by Western countries during the past two centuries and the wide distribution of the benefits of free enterprise have enormously reduced the extent of poverty in any absolute sense in the capitalistic countries of the West. But poverty is in part a relative matter, and even in these countries there ...
CNN Opinion’s Bethany Cianciolo spoke with Ruchir Sharma about how capitalism has become increasingly distorted, and why true capitalism is still the best economic system.
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"What we've seen in the last couple of years is that we've hit a tipping point and the global free market system is increasingly challenged by state capitalism," Bremmer says.
Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it does this task so well. It gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. ” — Milton Friedman (1912 – 2006) Capitalism and Freedom , 1962