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Pollitt: It's all about innovation. Capitalist companies are awfully good at intervening in response to problems. One of the nicest things about CSR is the extent to which it takes real community problems or issues in the way companies do business and innovates responses to them. What we see among leading exponent companies of CSR are really innovative solutions to local business-related problems. When an ethical issue emerges, initially it's only the leading, most enlightened companies that come up with any sort of response. And once they've demonstrated that these responses are effective, they can then...
...students were finding that books were cheaper elsewhere, and consequently ordered the books online. The Coop was losing money. I insisted that was our right, that the Coop can’t have a monopoly, and that this practice was effectively infringing upon our rights as consumers in a capitalist nation to yield the benefits of competition. I said it was illegal. He demurred...
...just as likely that innovations such as the steam engine, and the exploitation of its colonies, made England wealthy? And Clark's social Darwinism doesn't explain why equally stable and sophisticated societies in China and India industrialized at different rates, or how they have managed to become capitalist powerhouses in only a generation. At best, A Farewell to Alms is woefully naive; at worst, willfully reductionist. But Clark is right on a least one point: the industrialized world's prescription for affluence - good government, efficient markets and generous transfusions of foreign aid - has done little to spread prosperity...
...referred to the suffering of "boat people" and those who had to endure harsh "re-education," he did not cite the number that the Vietnamese will never forget. By 1973, when the U.S. withdrew its troops under the Paris Peace Accords that divided the country into communist north and capitalist south, a stunning 3 million Vietnamese - soldiers and civilians on both sides - had died (as did 58,000 American soldiers died as well). Vietnam's communist government responded to the Bush speech with a pointed statement that made no mention of Iraq: "Regarding the U.S. war in Vietnam...
...fingered as the new Fidel Castro. "For one thing," says Jones, "the Venezuelan people would never accept it. Chavez does want to create a more equitable society, even a socialist society, but I think he can only create a mixed economy. He inherited a very capitalist-minded country that has always aped U.S. culture." But nor can Chavez be stroked for leading, as he claimed this week, "a democracy more alive" than any "on this planet." As Escarra stressed, the democrats of the world shouldn't freak out over Chavez. But, Hugo being Hugo, they're not likely to chill...