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No joke. Bret Easton Ellis, 26, author of Less Than Zero and The Rules of Attraction, emerges from the 1980s grade-B romance with uninhibited capitalism, shuts his eyes and imagines a childish horror fantasy about a Wall Street yuppie whose tastes run from nouvelle cuisine to the most appalling...
When Atlanta was chosen as the site of the 1996 Olympic Summer Games, officials in some rival cities grumbled about the inevitable triumph of "Coca-Cola capitalism." That complaint had a realistic edge: the soft- drink giant is based in Atlanta and strongly supported the hometown bid to the International...
--Stone Professor of International Trade Jeffrey D. Sachs '76 on his plan to quickly convert the Polish economy to capitalism
In technology, the U.S. led most major developments, from the jet plane to the computer. It pioneered the move from the industrial to the information society. It did a lion's share of theoretical work in the sciences. For better or worse, it built -- and used -- the atom bomb, forever...
Private initiative must carry a larger share of responsibility, but in combination with more intelligent, imaginative and flexible government policies that tie social services to incentives for self-help. These may range from vouchers to enterprise zones to tenant ownership of housing projects. The principle of combining social responsibility with...