Word: capitalistically
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...demand: almost 500,000 new cars are expected to be sold this year. (Why not, with gas at 12˘ a gal.?) But the bolívar is sharply overvalued, inflation is the highest in Latin America, and even Chávez fears that his "21st century socialists" are living like capitalist nouveaux riches, the so-called boli-bourgeoisie...
...Principles of Economics” veterans, I must already sound truly irrational, even heretical. Because we have been force-fed the message that our world today progresses more rapidly than ever thanks to open markets, free trade, and liberated entrepreneurs, any mention of an anti-capitalist agenda is likely to be dismissed with derision. Yet now, arguably more urgently than ever, it is incumbent upon us to cast off the shackles of that theology of free-market liberation and come to terms with the actual dynamics of the world we live in. For Harvard students fond of the message that...
...This is almost surely impossible barring a total transformation of current structures of consumption and production. As another, no less ominous example, consider the fact that mainstream economics has no answers for the displaced rural masses coalescing on the outskirts of monstrous megacities across the global south. As per capitalist logic, their inability to compete with large-scale commercial enterprises has demanded their demise. Yet, according to Samir Amin’s calculations, “in 50 years’ time, industrial development, even in the fanciful hypothesis of a continued growth rate of seven percent annually, could...
...direction As a Diplomat, Rudd spent eight years in Beijing; he makes much of his ability to speak Mandarin. Perhaps coincidentally, his approach to Labor doctrine resembled an Australian version of Deng Xiaoping Theory. Whether an ideology is "surnamed capitalist or surnamed socialist" is immaterial, the late Chinese leader declared. Socialism is "whatever increases the comprehensive strength of the nation...
There is no guarantee, however, that people will embrace the advertising models that Facebook and MySpace are pushing. "How do you serve up ads in such a fashion that your young, hip audiences aren't turned off by it?" asks venture capitalist Jim Timmins of Pagemill Partners. Google faced these same worries in 2004 when it launched context-sensitive ads inside its e-mail program Gmail. When the company went public later that year, skeptics voiced similar concerns about the viability of an ad-supported model for its search engine. Google now trades at more than $600 a share...