Is Corporate Altruism Viable in a Competitive Economy?
It is very difficult for companies to pursue other goals than profits when they face tough competition, and when the behavior of their competitors is driven solely by profits.
It is very difficult for companies to pursue other goals than profits when they face tough competition, and when the behavior of their competitors is driven solely by profits.
William Easterly | Posted 07.01.2008 | Business
Gates' attacks the system that has historically done the most to alleviate poverty -- traditional capitalism -- in favor of an implausible alternative -- a third way that mixes profits and altruism.
Michael Kinsley | Posted 06.26.2008 | Business
The notion that capitalism, which is all about self-interest, can be amended somehow to be more about helping others -- and still be capitalist -- strikes many as hopelessly Pollyannaish and bizarre.
Monroe Price | Posted 06.23.2008 | Media
A recent informative New York TImes essay explores how big Olympic corporate sponsors are navigating the opportunities (and vulnerabilities) connected to Beijing.
Max Keiser | Posted 06.16.2008 | Business
The disappearance of water and credit has a common cause: a broken neo-classic capitalist system that forgot to factor in the replacement cost of natural resources and the costs of pollution.
Stacie Krajchir | Posted 05.28.2008 | Living
No more free bags people! From now on, those clear Ikea bags will be 5 cents each. Which is already a pretty universal thing and we in the bright sparkly US of A are just the late to the ban-the-bag party.
Jeff Dorchen | Posted 04.22.2008 | Politics
I apologize for the following. It was written in anger brought on by listening to All Things Considered for three whole minutes, a mistake I shall no...
Sally Kohn | Posted 04.22.2008 | Business
Why, with Wall Street collapsing around us, do we continue to privatizing everything that isn't nailed down?
Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 03.31.2008 | Business
We are not machines created to make profit, says Muhammad Yunus. We are three-dimensional humans who need much more than financial profits to survive and thrive.
Susan Kaiser Greenland | Posted 03.26.2008 | Business
What makes China unique is that they are the first nation to develop a system of what is essentially totalitarian capitalism. And what is the first lesson any capitalist learns? Keep the customers happy.
Dave Johnson | Posted 03.20.2008 | Business
My flight from Washington DC to Atlanta landed late. The connection to San Francisco still wasn't due to take off for a few minutes but the airline (...
Jane Smiley | Posted 03.17.2008 | Business
Our economy, with all its volatility, is exactly the economy any sane person would have predicted after the wholesale decline of regulation, as both a reality and an idea, in the eighties and nineties.
James Boyce | Posted 03.17.2008 | Business
A little economic trauma is exactly what this country needs for everyone to realize what the last eight years has done to this land, once the largest economy in the world.
Jacob Soboroff | Posted 02.17.2008 | Home
If we can move Presidents' Day for the convenience of shoppers, why not make Election Day more convenient for voters?
Michael Gene Sullivan | Posted 02.15.2008 | Politics
Once profit is introduced as a motivator, it becomes the only motivator. And there is a word for people who profit off the Government, especially in times of war. They are called Profiteers.
Jenna Henry Hansen | Posted 02.14.2008 | Living
I am not exactly sure when I became disgusted with the entire capitalist commercial holiday but I eventually decided I would no longer engage in this Hallmark holiday.
Erik Ringmar | Posted 02.14.2008 | Media
Last Tuesday, CNN fired a producer for American Morning for maintaining a blog. Yes, that's right. CNN, a leading news channel, sacked one of its journalists for exercising his First Amendment rights.
Paul Jenkins | Posted 02.12.2008 | Politics
Clinton isn't really for universal health care, or she would be advocating a socialized system not unlike Canada's, Great Britain's, or France's: free and accessible medical care.
Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 01.28.2008 | Business
What a truly amazing thing it is that we are finally thinking globally, and that true globalization is now understood also as acting locally.
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 01.28.2008 | Business
Citigroup has became the poster child of so much that is wrong, and much of what is happening throughout corporate America.
Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 01.24.2008 | Business
That Davos, the meeting place of the wealthy and powerful, should include themes spoken at conferences populated more by NGOs than executives means that the war has indeed been won.
Paula Gordon | Posted 01.24.2008 | Business
What is it America has against learning from experience? Do we really enjoy being lied to? Or gambling on Wall Street and losing when we play against the house?
Michael Shermer | Posted 01.23.2008 | Politics
Economic sanctions are not a necessary or sufficient cause of war, but they are almost always a prelude to war.
Deborah Siegel and Jacki Zehner | Posted 01.18.2008 | Business
Help America spend our way out of a problem created by too much spending? Only in America.
Conor Friedersdorf | Posted 01.18.2008 | Business
Whether creator David Simon thinks so or not, The Wire isn't a searing attack on the excesses of capitalism! That's not to say that the show isn't audacious.
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Gary Becker | Posted 07.03.2008 | Business