The next time you hear someone talk about an idea like (RED) or Purple Dog Tag remember: we live in a capitalistic society and the bottom line matters.
Gary Becker | Posted 07.03.2008 | Business
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.
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.
CNET News | Posted 01.25.2008 | Business
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates told the corporate and governmental bigwigs in attenda...
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.
Wall Street Journal | Robert A. Guth | Posted 01.24.2008 | Business
Free enterprise has been good to Bill Gates. But later today, the Microsoft Corp. chairman will call for a revision of capitalism. In a speech at the...
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Last week's post began an exploration into what style is today and how this relates to each of us. If we...
Two French scientists who discovered the AIDS virus and a German who defied convention...
James Boyce | Posted 08.06.2008 | Business