"Award winning" or not, if he was a REAL economist then he would know that NOTHING is free.
Since he does not, then he is just another lib-tard pseudo-economist.
In other words, the technology that a free market capitalist economy produced can now allow us to do socialism better. Right.
Has Capitalism had its day?
For now, since we don’t use it anymore.
After a sufficient period of collectivist utopia, it will rise again.
The thirst for freedom always reawakens.
Either it is a free market, or it is essentially Marxism.
Call it whatever you want, but the alternative to the free market is an authoritarian command economy with little freedom. The hope that new and higher levels of technology will change that is a pipe dream.
There is nothing that can artificially replace the trillions of intricate, infinitely complex social-economic decisions at every level of the economy that makes the free market superior. To act otherwise is to have to learn, again, another painful historical lesson in economics.
And the Marxists do try to re-name themselves every so many years in the hope that something will eventually stick. Today it is “Progressive”.
Free markets were around before states/governments/empires, and will be when they are gone.
“Free, easily shared goods”
When you figure that one out, give me a holler.
Seems like Capitalism is the only system that really works over the long haul.
It will come and go over the years when the hunger to strive dies out from good living, then after famine hits, the worthless people die out it will be back only to die out again.
Something for nothing: The oldest siren song since the dawn of mankind. And people never fail to fall for it.
Capitalism depends on GOD fearing participants.
In many ways, yes. However, USA was and is built on private enterprise; capitalism is a subset thereof. One of way, is that it implies or has come to be tied to *-money-from-thin-air-* which is going to destroy much of earth, on par w/ nuclear war. Wait for it, it is coming quite near...
The only reason National Socialism failed is because it wasn’t tried by the right person.
Hillary is the right person.
HILLARY! HILLARY! HILLARY!
ALL HAIL HILLARY!
WE SALUTE YOU HILLARY!
Nothin says lovin like a capitalist in the oven.
We have Crony Capitalism now, where government and big business conspires to screw the little guy. Capitalism had problems specifically BECAUSE OF GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION THAT MADE IT WORSE. The folks in government are every bit as corrupt as the aspiring oligarchs who conspire with them.
More government is only a recipe for ever increasing corruption, more failing economic performance, and oppression of the citizens. In America these days, the fox is “guarding” the hen house.
A prospering economy and prospering citizens are only the result of two combined things: freedom - and a moral people.
Both are rapidly disappearing from our nation.........
Socialism, but this time the right people will be in charge.
This article begs a Freeper response.
I am not a genius, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn recently...
It really is as simple as human nature....
People exchange goods and services. Bartering or a form of currency facilitates the exchange. What I have just described is a market, with SCARCITY as the catalysis.
Capitalism facilitates markets to produce the biggest bang for the buck. For an example food, electricity, etc. that have made western civilization possible.
Economics is not taught in the schools anymore. We're doomed.
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Capitalism will still exist - but only a select few will be able to participate in it. It’s the new and improved pay to play on steroids.
I think he is correct quite frankly but that’s where we diverge. He would argue, does argue, that capitalism is inherently evil. I do not.
However, mega-corporations are NOT capitalism. Mega-corporations are government by corporation. There is no competition of significance. The drive is no longer creation but acquisition. There is no longer a balance. And what little hope we had left is being bought up.
So while he and I come at this very differently, we both conclude that capitalism is, essentially, dead.
1] More and more income shifts to fewer and fewer people. 2] How many more frequent recessions/depressions can our democratic system accept before capitalism disappears.
Prosperity requires economic progress, and economic progress requires increased production and this requires capital accumulation,technological progress, and increases in productivity of labor. Increases in productivity of labor requires a division of labor economic system, and this requires the institutions,values and economic laws of capitalism.
What are the alternatives?
mixed economy and socialism