Capitalist Meltdown

On 1 July last year, Hong Kong, with its own capitalist system, was turned over to socialist China.

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Why doesn't somebody do it? And the answer is, How do you make a profit in a capitalist system, doing that?

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This is not a capitalist country.

Certain forms of sexuality and perversion were considered by definition not capable of existence in the communist system, but only in Capitalist countries.

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I will not be turned into a capitalist!

By day, I'm a venture capitalist. On weekends, I love rockets.

CA You started talking in recent years about this term capitalist philanthropy.

I will not have my son grow up to be a capitalist!

(vi) Unrestrained capitalist and caste exploitation of labour and natural and other resources,

(vi) Unrestrained capitalist and feudalist exploitation of labour and natural and other resources,

Among other things, the Basic Law provides that, under the principle of One Country, Two Systems , the socialist system and policies are not practised in the HKSAR and Hong Kong's previous capitalist system and way of life will remain unchanged for 50 years.

Of course, to some degree, a capitalist system will always be vulnerable to shocks and crises. The question is how to respond to them to minimize the fallout, while bolstering the system s resilience.

Ours is a city, not a wilderness preserve. And I've embraced my inner capitalist.

Under this policy, Hong Kong s capitalist system, the rule of law, and its people s freedoms and way of life were to be preserved. It provided for a popularly elected Chief Executive and Legislative Council.

Although the circumstances are different, the fundamental issues are always the same, for they touch on questions of legitimacy and morality. If remuneration is perceived as unjust, trust in the capitalist system will suffer.

But no actually existing capitalist market system spontaneously generates justice in exchange. There is always some monopoly power, insiders have more information than outsiders, ignorance and uncertainty are pervasive, and expectations are frequently disappointed.

It was only when Deng Xiaoping opened the door to trade with capitalist countries that anti Japanese sentiments were deliberately stirred up. Neither Marxism nor Maoism could be used to justify China s joining the capitalist world.

Unfortunately, many of us in this room are supporters of capitalist policies and market forces.

You mean I have been a capitalist for three hours... and already I owe 10,000?

In The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, Keynes ends by summarizing the strengths and weaknesses of the capitalist system. On one hand, capitalism offers the best safeguard of individual freedom, choice, and entrepreneurial initiative.

26. Globalization is producing a twofold process of concentration in the centres of greatest capitalist development.

This distributional quandary lies at the heart of the capitalist system, which is one of never ending competition fueled by the drive to maximize profits. In such a world, there is no room for a social conscience.

The first is imagine yourself going to a venture capitalist and saying, I've got a fantastic idea.

The same applies to the economic choice. Suffice it here to say that one prominent figure of the capitalist system here in the United States said a few weeks ago that he saw capitalism crumbling. We can see proof of this in the various economic crises in all the continents of the world, which have been caused by the capitalist system. Why, then, are we imposing on Cuba a political and economic choice at a time when both of those choices are being gradually proven a failure?

When he's eighteen, he can decide for himself... whether he wants to be a capitalist... or a rich Communist.

And I recently said that to a venture capitalist casually at some Valley event, to which he replied, How quaint.

Yet, in sub Saharan Africa, there are few hints of the global financial crisis that is consuming the capitalist world.

And she's an operator in a company in Silicon Valley, and she uses her contacts to become a very successful venture capitalist.

It's gone from socialist Tanzania into capitalist Tanzania, and continued to flourish. It had about 1,000 employees when we first found it.

There's no filth, there's no beggars, all the snake charmers have vanished, everybody's gone. This tells you how the capitalist world rules.

Some 70 years ago, during the Great Depression, John Maynard Keynes formulated his theory of unemployment, which described how government action could help restore full employment. While conservatives vilified him, Keynes actually did more to save the capitalist system than all the pro market financiers put together.

Obviously, abandoning market capitalist systems, and implicitly growth, is not really an option. Collectively, we have little choice but to try to adapt the system to changing technological and global conditions in order to achieve stability, equity (in terms of opportunity and outcomes alike), and sustainability.

That struggle was intensifying as the world capitalist economic crisis became more pronounced and as employers increasingly sought to exploit Puerto Rican workers.

The old state planner Chen Yuan once cautioned that Chinese reformers had created a birdcage economy in which a capitalist bird was growing within a socialist cage. His inference was that, unless Party leaders were careful, this capitalist bird would literally burst out of its socialist cage, spelling an end to China's Marxist Leninist revolution.

The third task is to focus on real economic activity, end the recession, sustain growth, and, above all, reform the capitalist system to make it be less dependent on finance. Long term investments, not short term profits, and productive work, rather than paper gains, need to be supported.

Capitalist economies have been spectacularly efficient at enabling growing consumption of private goods, at least over the long run. When it comes to public goods such as education, the environment, health care, and equal opportunity the record is not quite as impressive, and the political obstacles to improvement have seemed to grow as capitalist economies have matured.

This is why some analysts have described it as friction free capitalism , while others have preferred to consider it as a post capitalist model of competition .

Which venture capitalist in their right mind is going to give you any money to set up a venture competing with Microsoft, with Microsoft Outlook? No one.

If we looked in the world of 1945 and looked at the map of capitalist economies and democratic polities, they were the rare exception, not the norm.

(a) The structural crisis of the developed capitalist economies and the problems involved in integrating international migrations into the socio economic changes taking place at the global level.