Capitalism

Alignment Quiz for African Leaders: A note From the African World Economic Forum

Daniel Isenberg | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Addis Ababa, Financial System, Capitalism, Housing and Urban Development, World Economic Forum, World News

Just imagine how fast financial institutions, health care delivery, and public education would improve if leaders forced themselves to have their and their families' interests completely aligned with those of their constituents as well.

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Capitalism Has Failed: 5 Bold Ways to Build a New World

Sara Robinson | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Ecosystems, Capitalism, Economics, Local, Karl Marx, Business News

The old industrial-age systems -- state communism, fascism, free-market capitalism -- have all let us down hard, and growing numbers of us understand that going back there isn't an option.

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Mitt Romney Talking Points: A Private Equity Insider Offers Pointers

The Huffington Post | Jon Ward | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Creative Destruction, Video, 2012 Election, Bain Capital, President Obama, Mitt Romney, Elections 2012, 2012 Election Blog, Free Market, Capitalism, Private Equity, Politics News

One private equity industry insider expressed displeasure with Mitt Romney's explanations so far in defense of his record at Bain Capital, which has c...

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Private Equity Insider's Tip For Romney

Jon Ward | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Politics News, Creative Destruction, Video, Bain Capital, Elections 2012, Mitt Romney, 2012 Election Blog, Free Market, Capitalism, Private Equity, Barack Obama, Politics News

One private equity industry insider Thursday expressed displeasure with Mitt Romney's explanations so far in defense of his record at Bain Capital, wh...

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Who Needs a Greek Government?

Peter Alexander Meyers | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Efficiency, Polanyi, Papandreou, Syriza, Elections 2012, Referendum, Merkel, Greek Debt Crisis, Capitalism, Euro, Pasok, Greece, New Democracy, Alexis Tsipras, Legitimacy, Samaras, Tsipras, World News

Greeks must decide to stay or go. Perhaps that is why it failed to come before the people. Perhaps that is why, when on May 6 the election was played out in a way that minimized the literal and more important question -- "Do you want to adopt the new agreement?" -- it failed again.

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Capitalist Revolution: Forget the Deficit and Learn From Europe

Sanjay Sanghoee | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Congress, John Boehner Debt Ceiling, Debt Ceiling, John Boehner, Trickle Down, France, Economic Crisis, Elections 2012, Capitalism, Euro, Deficit, Politics, Unemployment, Greece, Spending Cuts, Socialism, Europe, Republicans, Business News

Before we go wild with our deficit-cutting scythe, let's make sure that we are not hacking away at our own feet in the process.

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How to Engage a Venture Capitalist: Lessons From Our Dealflow

Andrew Tweed | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Business Tips, Investing, Growing a Business, Investing Advice, Business Advice, Venture Capitalists, Venture Capital, Capitalism, Venture Capitalism Advice, Venture Capitalism, Business News

The ways in which an entrepreneur might best connect with venture capitalists has been covered by a number of other VCs across the web, but we thought it might be helpful for entrepreneurs to put this question into context by providing actual operating data regarding deal flow for our firm.

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Innovation in the Government Industry, Vol. 1: Seasteading

Michael B. Fishbein | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Peter Thiel, Government, Innovation, Patri Friedman, Seasteading Institute, Startups, Venture Capital, Capitalism, Entrepreneurship, Tedx, Small Business News

Innovation and progress requires experimentation -- trial and error. Unfortunately, for entrepreneurs with ideas for "startup countries," there's no way for them to experiment. It's not like the software industry where all you need is a laptop.

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Making Sacrifices When Change Is Inevitable

Allessandra Bradley-Burns | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Racism, Apartheid, Capitalism, Status Quo, Cuba, Ideological Beliefs, Latino Voices News

This is not a story about race, although it may seem so at first. I will leave that reflection for another day. Instead, it is about how a country chooses to embrace and create solutions when faced with something that has impacted each of us personally.

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Of Catholics, Capitalism, And American Conservatism

Yujhan Claros | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Catholic Church, American Conservatism, Christianity and Capitalism, Capitalism, Catholicism and Capitalism, Catholicism and Communism, Religion News

While the GOP prances around Washington on a religious moral high-horse calling upon the sanctity of marriage, the GOP also hypocritically picks and choses what morals are convenient for the purposes of winning votes.

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The System Isn't Broken; It Was Built This Way

Carl Gibson | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Gas Prices, Foxconn, Humanity, Manufacturing, Sustainability, Capitalism, China Economy, China, The Venus Project, Work Conditions, Environmental Regulation, Environmentalism, Financial Regulation, Business News

Where in the world can we go to get an accurate picture of where capitalism will inevitably lead us 20 to 30 years down the road? Communist China, ironically.

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Growing Up, Falling in Love

Robert Koehler | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Nationalism, Arctic Drilling, Evolution, Militarism, Climate Change, Media, Capitalism, Arctic Ice Melt, Global Warming, Green News

We have to begin thinking and organizing ourselves beyond the arbitrary constraints of nations and beyond our current, resource-devouring economic system. We have to imagine a global culture that doesn't pit humanity against nature.

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For Capitalism to Survive, Crime Must Not Pay

Bruce Judson | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Competition, Financial Industry, Robo-Signing, Financial Reform, Financial Crisis, Capitalism, Economic Inequality, Financial Regulation, Worldcom, Business News

A corporation that knowingly breaks the law will find ways to profit through illegal means that are not available to competitors. As a consequence, the competitive playing field is biased toward the company that does not need to follow the rules.

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The End of Capitalism -- So What's Next?

Klaus Schwab | Posted 04.14.2012

Read More: CEO Pay, Global Economy, Free Market Capitalism, Klaus Schwab, Economics, Income Inequality, Economy, Economic Recovery, Free Market, Capitalism, Business News

Even though capitalism has not been laid to rest, it is fair to say that capital is losing its status as the most important factor of production in our economic system. Capital is being superseded by the ability to innovate -- and therefore by human talents.

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The New Capitalists

Brian LaSorsa | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Generation Y Beliefs, Corporations, Corporate Law, New Capitalists, Capitalism, Generation Y, New Capitalism, The Great Gatsby, College News

I really don't blame them, these corporations. They're old men trying to make a living in a young economy. If our business models were as terrible as theirs, we'd fight in support of protectionist legislation, too.

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The Frog and the Scorpion

Conn Hallinan | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Socialism, Bo Xiali, Capitalism, Wen Jiabao, China, China Poverty, China Economy, China Human Rights, World News

Global capitalism -- including in China, despite its self-styled socialism with Chinese characteristics" -- is in its most severe crisis since the great crash of the 1930s. The question is, can any country make a system with serious built-in flaws function for all of its people?

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The Third Industrial Revolution: How the Internet, Green Electricity, and 3-D Printing Are Ushering in a Sustainable Era of Distributed Capitalism

Jeremy Rifkin | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Third Industrial Revolution, 3D Printer, 3-D Printing, Digital Manufacturing, Innovation, Entrepreneurs, Capitalism, Entrepreneurship, Technology News

In the same way that the Internet radically reduced entry costs in generating and disseminating information, giving rise to new businesses like Google and Facebook, additive manufacturing has the potential to greatly reduce the cost of producing hard goods.

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Rediscovering Government

Jeff Madrick | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Reagan, Taxes, Government, Infrastructure, Obama, Capitalism, Economy, Business News

There is no economy without government; there is no America without government. If all this seems a little elementary, it serves a point. The language we use suggests at the outset an assumption that government should be limited.

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A Disturbing Trend

Jared Moffat | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Philosophy, Education, Education Reform, Capitalism, Humanities, College, Liberal Arts, Brown University, Universities, College News

Amid a struggling economy and a ballooning student debt crisis, parents and students are reevaluating the merits of a college education. There is no simple answer, because the return on investment depends on what you study.

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Makers, Takers and $2-a-Dayers

Michelle Chen | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Taxes, Elections, Gop, Bill Clinton, Welfare, Poverty, Conservatives, US Poverty, Budget, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Global Poverty, Capitalism, Republicans, Politics News

The right pushes a delusional narrative of a country divided between "makers and takers" -- productive go-getters versus welfare-hungry sloths. But it's all too clear who the real takers are: the ones who make it harder for everyone else to make a living.

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Pursuing Happiness: A Declaration of Reinvention

Russell C. Smith | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Declaration of Independence, Liberty, Spirit of Reinvention, Money, Capitalism, Imagination, Pursuing Happiness, Happiness as a Concept, Culture News

What a grand gesture. The pursuit of happiness -- codified into the founding document of a newly emerging nation. Happiness as an ideal to reach for and maybe not ever attain.

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"Occupy Rousseau" and Challenge Inequality in America

Benjamin R. Barber | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Switzerland, Occupy Wall Street, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Democracy, Capitalism, Inequality, Eliot Spitzer, Thomas Kean, Global Occupy, Class War, Class Warfare, Occupy Movement, Income Inequality, Politics News

Jean-Jacques Rousseau proclaimed in his Social Contract that men, though born free, were everywhere in chains. Astonishingly, three centuries later, inequality continues to dog capitalism and taint democracy's legitimacy -- worse now even than back then.

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Are Bankers Capitalists?

Bruce Judson | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Banks, Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase & Co, Bankers, Media, Dodd-Frank, Capitalism, Wall Street Bailout, Responsibility, Bank Bailout, Accountability, Business News

Wall Street, which should be the heart of American capitalism, has instead become the heart of a dysfunctional system that is destroying the nation's wealth.

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Beyond Firm-Level Sustainable Capitalism

John Fullerton | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Sustainable Economics, Sustainability, Sustainable Capitalism, Economic Sustainability, Capitalism, Business News

We need the sustainable business community to join the ongoing systems level conversation about how to make the whole global economy truly sustainable, not merely less unsustainable.

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How CEOs Can Save Capitalism

Ed Lawler | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Occupy, Ibm, Johnson and Johnson, Capitalism, Executive Compensation, Davos, CEO Salary, Executive Pay, Business News

CEOs should receive executive compensation packages that only pay off well for them when their organization is producing good returns for its employees, its shareholders and the environment.

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