Word: capitalisme
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Capitalism has improved the lives of billions of people - something that's easy to forget at a time of great economic uncertainty. But it has left out billions more. They have great needs, but they can't express those needs in ways that matter to markets. So they are stuck...
There's much still to be done, but the good news is that creative capitalism is already with us. Some corporations have identified brand-new markets among the poor for life-changing technologies like cell phones. Others - sometimes with a nudge from activists - have seen how they can do good...
That kind of criticism may further be undermined by the manner in which Sarkozy described the converging views he and Obama exchanged during their t?te-?-t?te before meeting the press. The discussion ranged, they said, from Iraq to Iran, Afghanistan to Darfur, and issues like global warning to what...
But no matter how good the rug selection, the endless variations in style and quality make bazaar bargaining a daunting exercise. And any transaction can conjure old clichés of naive Americans and wily, opaque locals. But such clichés are exactly that. Rug traders drive a hard bargain for...
I can hear graduates shaking their mortar-boarded heads in unison and maintaining that what I’ve said is painfully obvious. No one thinks they work just to work, because no one wants to believe they’ve become the embodiment of the Protestant Ethic or the...