economic systems

I have no argument with the fact that capitalism is an efficient and productive economic system. The free marketers like to preach its marvels, but they never acknowledge or recognize the destructiveness that is built into capitalistic systems. These faults were even recognized by Adam Smith whose book, ...

MACON – Mercer University junior Creed Dunn has been accepted for admission to the 2018 Engalitcheff Institute on Comparative Political and Economic Systems (ICPES) as a participant in the Leadership Scholars Program. Dunn, a political science major from Chattanooga, Tennessee, will receive a full ...

MACON – Mercer University junior Creed Dunn has been accepted for admission to the 2018 Engalitcheff Institute on Comparative Political and Economic Systems (ICPES) as a participant in the Leadership Scholars Program. Dunn, a political science major from Chattanooga, Tennessee, will receive a full ...

May I begin by commending my brother, Dr. Bode Ayorinde, who has a Doctor of Law and is a former lecturer at the University of Ife. He is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers; the Founder & Pro-Chancellor of Achievers University, Owo and Chairman of the House Technical Committee on ...

After William Gibson coined the term cyberspace in his 1984 novel Neuromancer, it almost immediately entered our everyday vocabulary. A play on information theorist Norbert Wiener's idea of cybernetics, cyberspace became shorthand for the world inside our networked computers, that digital landscape ...

The conflict between capitalism and socialism has continued for over 200 years. Indeed, the conflict is deeply implicated in all decisive events of recent times. Modern capitalism began in Italian city-states approximately six centuries ago. It eventually grew into a global economic system with the United ...

They said it is baseless to say that Islam does not address today's financial meltdown where poverty and unemployment rate is increasing with a fastest speed and vulnerable diseases are posing a serious threat to nations around the globe-all this was the result of staying away from the natural economic system, which is ...

U.S. Treasury undersecretary for international affairs, David Malpass, said during a forum in Washington yesterday that China should no longer be “congratulated” for its economic policies, Reuters reports, accusing Beijing of “patently non-market behaviour”. During the comment Malpass added that ...

The human person, not the 'god of money', must be at the centre of our social and economic systems, if social justice is to prevail. This is the key message of a document published by the Justice and Peace Commission and the Emigrants' Commission of the Archdiocese of Malta to mark World Day of ...

Tuesday, Feb 13, 2018, 3:21 pm. The Stock Market Crash Reveals the Rot at the Core of Our Economic System. BY Matthew Cunningham-Cook · Share TweetReddit14 StumbleUpon68EmailPrint ...

But this time I want not so much to bandy further statistics about as to respond to Gordon's more general point of “how do we design a new economic system?” So far as I can see, he regards this mainly as a matter of summoning enough willpower. Because too much of our decision-making in government ...

Economic systems include elements of design. Economic systems are not the progeny of happenstance, nor are they beyond our powers, like the sun and moon and stars above. And based on how things have worked out, nor are they the fruit of unimpeachable wisdom. In any case, they are influential.

Gwynn Guilford is a reporter for Quartz, a business news site. She specializes in writing about the economy. Guilford spent 10 months researching Appalachia's economy for an article called “The 100-year capitalist experiment that keeps Appalachia poor, sick, and stuck on coal”. Guilford dug into the history ...

These developments have frequently been explained in terms of popular opposition to the economic system and neoliberalism, but to what extent are these developments ... We found that despite the differences in political and economic systems across our three cities, there were shared understandings.

Richard Leonard has used his Scottish Labour conference speech to underline his "mission" to "fundamentally change" the economic system. The party leader told delegates in Dundee that "our economy needs less market and more planning". Mr Leonard also proposed reforms to the rental sector and ...