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James Oakes, Slavery and Liberal Capitalism

the playing field level" (Zimmerman). This idea is still alive today, proposed by progressives who feel that everyone should get a...

Capitalism and social justice

that means reducing the comfort and well-being of others. Adam Smiths argument, that a free market with minimal intervention will ...

John Galt's Self-Centered Ravings

government doesnt steal everything; it is the opposite of the world she creates, which is why Galts objectivism does not fly. His ...

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND CAPITALISM

DISCLAIMER Following are questions concerning corporate governance, capitalism and universal ownership. How are...

The Concept of Mercantilism

a significant shift in the way that the supporting military forces were utilized. Prior to the mercantilist period the dominant mi...

McDonald's in Moscow: Global Capitalism and the Homogenization of Culture

once wrote that a "McDonalds in Moscow and Coke in China will do more to create a global culture than military colonization could ...

Capitalism in the United States

Such action will surely prove destabilizing. American capitalism impacts consumerism and materialism in another way, by lulling A...

Greed in the Corporate Sector

to consider who has helped the most people, Michael Milken or Mother Teresa. Mother Teresa spent her life helping the poor, while ...

U.S. Democracy, Capitalism, Class, and Race

otherwise availing and equitable pursuit of modern society, others support its continued presence and believe capitalism is meant ...

Milton S. Hershey Biography by Michael D'Antonio

the company extraordinary profits. However, by this point, the success of the company was an American legacy. By the early 1890s...

Health Care and Free Market

insurance cost, 2004). The rising costs are bringing hardships to insured and uninsured alike; the single biggest cause for person...

Nineteenth Century Perspectives on Wealth

novel awakens in the future, the year 2000, and at this time Bellamy pictures a utopian state that was achieved by the abandonment...

Capitalism and the Philosophy of Karl Marx

they realize that they may not be able to survive. They only have to come up with the money because an old, poor friend married a ...

Connection Between Capitalism and Democracy

. . Capitalist democracy is neither just capitalism, nor just democracy, nor just some combination of the two that does not change...

Promoting Democracy Through Imperialist Power?

to the extent that, for instance, the dominant party can dictate the terms of trade to its advantage; more broadly, cultural persp...

Motivating Factors of Greed, Free Trade, and Profit

that people can earn money while being frugal at the same time. Webers argument concerning the origin of capitalism in his classic...

Karl Marx on the Importance of the State

In ten pages this paper discusses capitalism in an overview of Karl Marx's views on the importance of the state. Five sources are...

Wealth and its History

"common" birth (Defoe). She enlists the help of many aids along the way, and finds money to be an especially interesting and infl...

Criminal Justice System, Capitalism, and Victimization

1999). Manson, the infamous cult leader serving time for the Sharon Tate murders of the 1970s, reaps big profits from a song name...

Capitalism Perspectives of the 19th Century

(2002) demonstrates what capitalism is all about as it portrays the rising form of government in this brilliant novel. The protago...

Modernism and Capitalism Perspectives

too much like pre modern despotic households (1997). He sees a compromise as the answer. Rather than going one way or the other, ...

The Nature and Logic of Capitalism by Heilbroner

Keynes, contending that such theories are simply erroneous. His vision of capitalism is different from the capitalism that class...

Future and the Viability of Capitalism

Without question, one can easily recognize the reality of many predictions that exist within The Communist Manifesto : A Modern Ed...

Interwar Years and the Crisis of European Capitalism

Examining how each of these separate entities ultimately contributed to The Age of Catastrophe helps one to gain a significantly b...

Capitalism and its Destruction

are therefore not revolutionary, but conservative." It does seem to be the case that for example the Republican party in the Unit...

China, Hong Kong, and Productive Innovation

be initiated. To date, it appears that the communists are happy to live in a capitalist world. For every idealistic stance, there...

US of the 20th Century and Industry

industrial revolution did to some extent "undermine merchant capitalism" (Whalen, 2001) . Profit motive was ever-present and so th...

Overview of African American and Native American Ideologies and Globalization

took a vicious Civil War to legally end the "peculiar institution," although the South continued to pass such things as the Jim Cr...

Marx's Ideas on Labor

(Felluga, 2011; Moseley, 2010). He spent a great deal of time discussing the nature of value. He used these arguments to demonstra...

Philosophical Discussion Questions

as a bridge so that people with different understandings can nevertheless come to understand and appreciate one anothers views. ...