capitalism

From a Washington Post review of The Shock Doctrine - The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein:

“Hands off” economies include forms of capitalism such as Laissez-faire capitalism as well as libertarianism, where the government plays no role in the regulation of the actions of market entities including corporations as well as no way to prevent or remedy market failures. There are many flaws...

This thread is about the question: What is the right balance between the free market and government intervention to solve any of a number of issues? All political opinions are welcome: liberals, conservatives, libertarians, socialists, libertarian socialists, anarchists... I want to hear your...

It has always seemed relatively obvious to me that "eventually," technology will outclass humans in every possible human endeavor. (And by always, I mean since I was a little kid.) This is because it's certainly possible (worst case scenario, we can simply reverse engineer how humans do it and...

I have wondered the same thing. I would have thought that a company is logically priced at a mulitple of earnings with the dividend factored in. If you are a gambler, add in something for growth. Companies at present are worth more than these, unless you are just a gambler. Yet private...

The 90% of the World thread's break off into estate tax and wealth got me thinking about where people stand on the above. My thinking is along these lines. The human desire is not to work but to play. In order to get people to work, we must pay them. In order to get people to fill necessary...

I think that, worldwide, capitalism would appeal to the mass of humanity if it had a moral/ethical component. Think of all the atrocities committed directly in the name of capitalism. Slavery comes to mind right away, but all the imperialism, including Iraq, also come to mind. The only reason...

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/11/1097406493918.html?from=storylhs Still more information on this topic I have raised before. The Western policy on making Russia capitalist was just too much too quick. previous thread...

http://www.rationalrevolution.net/articles/economy_web.htm I'm sure that many would have comments.

Kidnappers prosper in Baghdad Iraq is turning into a middle east version of the wild west, only now instead of Colt 44's, the gunslingers carry RPG's and AK-47's. The fight isn't between cattlemen and sheepherders, it's between criminal gangs and families. The options? Pull out and let Iraq...

Kelly's Heroes (1970) d: Brian G Hutton w: Troy Kennedy Martin s: Clint Eastwood, Donald Sutherland, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, Carroll O'Connor Kelly's Heroes opens with American capitalists engaging in typical wasteful saturation artillery bombarding upon innocent civilians in Nazi Germany...

So many people act like the smelled a bad fart in an elevator when you mention capitalism. It's like they imagine a million Gordon Geckos trying to rob them blind when they imagine free markets. I say its time to give capitalism a second chance in the industrialized west. We have come a long...

I saw on CNN that part of President Bush's war package includes money (7.2 million) for the airline industry for losses due to the war. Hmmm, now I seem to recall that the airline industry begged to be deregulated and have 'an open market place', and we were told that the capitalist system would...