He created the cash economy-a cornerstone of capitalism-with a brilliant insight: Money is the enemy of caste and stagnation.
This massive collective project of small and informal workers, entrepreneurs and distributors, developed alongside the formal economy of the new advanced capitalism that was thriving in global cities around the world, from Buenos Aires to Dublin to Manila and on.
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As the best-known patriarch among the ruling families that dominate the Mexican economy, he draws the most fire for the distinctly Mexican form of crony capitalism that pervades the national economy.
But to do so we must not be afraid to name and shame false practitioners of capitalism whose behavior threatens the entire economy.
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Social market economy can cushion a lot of the ugly downsides of pure capitalism.
Their youth speaks to the incredible growth of capitalism, and the growth of the economy, in recent decades in China.
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The bubble economy of the 1990s and the rampant greed that accompanied it, testifies to capitalism's need for a moral compass.
While New Labour more fairly distributed the benefits of a growing economy, One Nation Labour will have to "rescue capitalism from itself".
But that pointy end of capitalism is a necessary component that allows the rest of the economy to operate effectively and efficiently.
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You should endeavor to rise above the partisan fray and raise the level of discourse to one that is both more civil and more conciliatory.... Capitalism is not the source of our problems, as an economy or as a society, and capitalists are not the scourge that they are too often made out to be.
In that book he argues that even Western economies are moving away from free market capitalism and toward state capitalism, a system where governments take over large portions of the economy and do what is in their best interest rather than what's in the best interest of the private sector.
No, the creative destruction for which capitalism is famous comes from the exit and entry of firms out of and into the economy.
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There is nothing new about corporate malfeasance, either in the U.S. or elsewhere, but coming one on top of another in the biggest, most media-saturated economy, this year's cases have rocked shareholder capitalism.
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