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Capitalism has always faced three normative accusations: critics claim that it leads (a) to the impoverishment of … accusations are not justified. (a) Under capitalism, people, especially workers, are getting richer and live longer, healthier and … according costs. (c) Capitalism promotes cooperation and open-mindedness. It strengthens trust in institutions and reduces …
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After the collapse of the Communist regimes and their command economies, the countries of the former Soviet Union found themselves with only a very small amount of goods to supply to the global market. There was no way that they could have existed in an economy of this type that is nothing more...
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Deirdre McCloskey argues that rhetoric and ideas were essential for the rise of capitalism in the Netherlands in the … Dutch capitalism. This article aims to situate McCloskey's work within this literature, with the hope for more discussion in …
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Uber fail to put it into historical perspective and in particular do not examine the history of taxi cab capitalism and its … underlying relations of production. Using Toronto, Canada as a case study, this study explores the shifting modes of capitalism … Uber challenge to prior regimes of taxi capitalism is less a matter of technological innovation than a bold challenge to …
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The paper applies the radical view of Monopoly Capitalism to the digital platform economy. Based on the seminal ideas … an evolution of large transnational corporations. Power and control in our Monopoly Capitalism view are then meant not …
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A response to “Death of Democracy: An Inevitable Possibility under Capitalism’’ by Rajan Gurukkal (EPW, 25 August 2018 …) seeks to foreground the inherent contradiction between genuine democracy and capitalism. Realising the possibility of system …
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For the past decade, the sharing economy has not only grown but also expanded to cover a wide variety of different activities across the globe. Despite a lot of research, there is still no agreement on how to define and measure the sharing economy, and no consensus on whether the sharing economy...
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Mature capitalism and market economy realities become intelligible also by scrutinizing their “prodigal children …
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Capitalism is one of the most successful modes of capital management practicing in most of the countries of the world …. Bangladesh adopted it since last 80s and became the haven of capitalism by these 35 years. Bangladesh achieved its independence …
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of CIS countries is far from European style of capitalism. It is better to qualified as 'post-communist capitalism', a … society that can not be squeezed into the classic understanding of the word “capitalism” or any other theoretically … generalized model of capitalism. The key reason for this phenomenon is what can be termed the 'necroeconomy' …
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