whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

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Walton, it\'s been a while. Here\'s a definition for you from dictionary.com: capitalism is \"an economic system based on private ownership of capital\". None of this \"the concentration of economic

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This is disingenuous. While \'anti-capitalism\' is a very broad term, most people who call themselves anti-capitalists are united by one thing: their belief in economic democracy. Our biggest critique

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I\'m very pleased you have decided to engage here. As regards your question: \"if capitalism is so great ... why do 20% of the world live in absolute poverty?\" The US has 95% employment and

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... shot a protestor dead in Genoa, many more have been badly wounded, and others have had long sentences. If capitalism is so great, and has all these wonderful \"solutions\", how come - in a world t...

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...piling in) and old businesses fearing carbon caps as well as new, more nimble, competitors. In other words Capitalism can, very rapidly, provide solutions to clearly enunciated problems. Any probl...

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This is nonsense. You\'re confusing human interaction with capitalism. Look up capitalism on wikipedia if you don\'t know what it is: \"Capitalism generally refers to an economic system in which

7. Of Capitalism, Socialist Greed, Poverty and Remaining Silent
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It is rare that major businesses dare to stick their necks out and object to government policy. Mostly they're too busy keeping their heads down to avoid all the shrapnel sent their way. "

8. Contradictions resolve in ways you don't intend
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...y has become 27% larger. Much of the ANC succession debate has been over this seeming contradiction. Either capitalism doesn't create jobs, or businesses are being selfish and refusing to create...

9. Dow Jones, The Wall Street Journal, and Rupert Murdoch
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Business is cyclical. Innovation changes environments and, unintentionally, destroys profitable status quos. When that happens stronger and more innovative firms pounce to buy up the assets of weake

10. Atlas Shrugged at 50
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Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, first published 1957, 1 200 pages, ISBN 978-0452011878 "For twelve years, you have been asking: Who is John Galt? This is John Galt speaking. I am the man who loves hi

11. Everything is coming up Capitalism
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...nist-designed vehicles, in their lumpy Communist-designed shoes what could be a better advert for the joys of Capitalism? Except, people forget. And, as in George Orwell's cerebral 1984 , there ...

12. The tragedy of innovation: how brilliant ideas are criminalised
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...new. Are they more efficient now than they were 100 years ago? Yes, they are. The same is true of market-led capitalism, large-scale industrialisation, patent regulations, copyright, democracy and ev...

13. Suburbanise! How aid and trade obliterate unique cultures
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...he stone throwing. Despite "Make Poverty History" and billions of Dollars in aid and opposition to capitalism. Poverty will end. The foundations for that post-poverty world are being laid...

14. Two Frontiers: wars of liberation and of determination
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... been greater. The youngsters lighting fires in Germany at the G8 Summit to protest about globalisation and capitalism have little in common with the striking protestors in South Africa this week al...

15. What comes after Capitalism?
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...ts all. We have decided. Air will be replaced." Outlandish? Perhaps. But so is the argument against Capitalism. Air may be dirty, or clean. It may carry the scent of long-forgotten memories...

16. The efficiency of markets and how protectionism leaves the poor behind
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There is something magnificent about the way that modern, market-driven businesses get ever more efficient. How they are able to derive ever more from ever less. Agriculture used to be a matter of p

17. Do you hate the poor enough to be charitable?
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...like Cuba, Iran and Venezuela and the attraction they have for other marginalised people. The limitations of capitalism Capitalism can only go so far. It is not a functional ideology. It is simply...

18. Islam, Shari'ah Law, and Cultural Capitalism
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...round the world.  They are relatively new instruments but prove something exciting about equity markets: capitalism is a bicycle.  Whether you're Muslim, Socialist or a born-again enviro...

19. The US$ 5 trillion market at the bottom of the pyramid
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... interested; but 50 times less for the same quality? Says Prahalad:  “We need to create inclusive capitalism.  If we exclude the poorest we will get social unrest and outrage – ...

20. Racial arguments muddy human rights and the ending of poverty
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...rlier risen up against similar behaviour by their royal house.  Even France’s continuing terror of capitalism and globalisation are simply a way of pretending that they can control their fu...

21. How do we prepare nonprofit organisations for the long term?
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...nterventions but also prepare these organizations for self-sufficiency in the future – a cornerstone of capitalism; our best system for economic sustainability and growth so far. And it is thes...

22. Does the new Apple iPhone cause poverty?
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There is a naïve belief that, as the rich get richer, they consume more of the world’s resources and – in so doing – leave an ever dwindling amount of stuff over for the poor.

23. Ayn Rand
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Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth. The contrast between West and East Berlin is the latest demonstration, like a laboratory experiment for all to see. Yet those

24. Albert Einstein
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It's no accident that capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge. Egoism and competition are, alas, stronger forces than public spirit and sense of dut

25. Winston Churchill
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The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. Winston Churchill

26. The poor have never had it so good ... now what?
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...s still the same amount of physical stuff as before – but it does debase the value of the currency. And capitalism is no different from the internal combustion engine. An engine works by the sa...

27. What do Richard Branson and Che Guevara have in common?
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...s that existing businesses are already making.  The reason he is able to do so is because of free market capitalism which allows anyone to start a business in competition to anyone else and will ...

28. Senescence, the death of development
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Development, as a discipline, is a relatively young phenomenon; the idea that we, as benevolent outsiders, should intervene in the lives of a functionally distinct group of people to assist them in re

29. Lessons in sustainable development
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... our environment - otherwise we’ll all wind up dead." In reality, Easter has a more sombre lesson. Capitalism works, and socialism will kill you. When any good has a fixed (or, worse, no) v...

30. The Feedback Loop
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...uo;t measure and do their job then they can’t tell the body to produce an appropriate level of insulin. Capitalism works in a similar organic fashion. Entrepreneurs identify a need (for microwav...