Word: capitalisme
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Ideals such as capitalism and democracy are not accepted everywhere. We have the ignorant belief that because they are effective for us, they would be welcome everywhere else. These ideals were never--and may never be--universal. We are naive to believe that people with completely different cultures would be...
Around the globe--in South America, Africa, Russia and other parts of Asia--the benefits of a world-market economy, globalization, were also coming under pressure. This unease rocked Seattle when, starting on Nov. 29, 1999, antiglobalist protesters ran amuck at a World Trade Organization meeting. Demonstrators indiscriminately trashed icons...
Most Latin American film-makers can't stand slick Hollywood formulas. But two of the best Latin movies now playing in the U.S. and Europe benefit from at least one Tinseltown trick: good timing. Brazilian co-directors Fernando Meirelles and K?tia Lund's City of God, the brutally realistic saga...
But officials at the KSG—which has received millions of dollars from Socrates Kokkalis for a program to encourage capitalism and democracy in southeastern Europe—say that they will assume he is innocent until he is proven guilty.
The U.S. Department of Justice argues that personal investments Shleifer made in Russia constituted a breach of contract and undermined his program’s mission to help manage Russia’s transition to capitalism.