“Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.” DecisionPowerShareEconomicPerspectiveCapitalismAffectedMakersEngagementDecision Makers Author:Barney Frank
“The capitalist workplace is one of the most profoundly undemocratic institutions on the face of the Earth. Workers have no say over decisions affecting them. If workers sat on the board of directors of democratically operated self-managed enterprises, they wouldn't vote for the wildly unequal distribution of profits to benefit a few and for cutbacks for the many.” IfsSelfEarthFacesDecisionDirectorsBenefitsCapitalismEconomicsVoteManagementInstitutionsWorkersProfitInequalityBoardsSatEnterpriseVotingCapitalistWorkplaceDistributionBoard Of DirectorsCutbacks Author:Richard D. Wolff
“The great challenge of the twentieth century ... is to create a new financial architecture in which private decisions produce a less degenerate capitalism.” ChallengesDecisionCenturyProduceCapitalismFinancialArchitectureTwentieth CenturyDegenerates Author:Will Hutton
“I think companies trying to exercise a so-called inversion should be hit with an exit tax. So I want to change behaviors, and I am deeply distressed about quarterly capitalism, because I think it is causing businesses to make decisions that are not helping the long-term profitability of American corporations or the success of our economy.” ThinkingWantShouldTryingLongHelpingTermDecisionCompanyEconomyExerciseTaxesBehaviorCapitalismCorporationsLong TermExitProfitabilityInversions Author:Hillary Clinton
“The constant drive for campaign dollars has distorted decision-making in Washington, DC, to the point where our systems can no longer effectively address complex, long-term problems like the climate crisis. Which brings me to my other major concern - the short-term focus of capitalism. It distorts the allocation of resources and the decision-making processes of companies.” LongProblemProcessTermDecisionCompanyFocusMajorsCapitalismResourcesConcernCrisisConstantDollarsClimateComplexesCampaignsLong TermAddressesDecision MakingShort TermWashington DcAllocationDecision Making Process Author:Al Gore
“I have no quarrel with libertarians who advance the concept of capitalism . I believe that people will decide for themselves what they want to do. The all-important thing is that they be free to make that decision and that they do not stand in the way of communities that wish to make other decisions.” PeopleWayWantBelieveImportantI BelieveWishCommunityDecisionConceptsCapitalismImportant ThingsLibertarianQuarrels Author:Murray Bookchin
“The European Union is effectively a union dominated by the German political and economic elite. Its main function is to serve as a nucleus for financial capitalism and to ease the road for that capitalism. The other functions just irritate everyone: it's undemocratic; decisions are not made by parliament; the European Parliament is not sovereign.” MadePoliticalDecisionEconomicCapitalismFunctionUnionsFinancialEaseElitesSovereignParliamentEuropean UnionNucleus Author:Tariq Ali
“One of our great strength, world capitalism, is the most successful economic system possible, but has also become one of shorter and shorter cycles of evaluation. CEOs, companies, stocks, profits and debits change at an ever more accelerated pace in response to the demands of stockholders and the market. We have already experienced some consequences of the shortening cycle of decision making in business, but those are minor in relation to the grand systemic collapse that always eventually results from such accelerating and shortening periods for leadership goals.” WorldGoalDecisionSuccessfulEconomicCapitalismConsequenceRelationResponseDecision MakingCeo Author:Arthur Demarest
“When I speak about the "tyranny of choice," I mean an ideology that originates in the era of post-industrial capitalism. It began with the American Dream - the idea of the self-made man, who works his way up from rags to riches. By and by, this career concept developed into a universal life philosophy. Today we believe we should be able to choose everything: the way we live, the way we look, even when it comes to the coffee we buy, we constantly need to weigh our decision. That is extremely unhealthy.” MenBelieveMeanPhilosophyDreamTodayChoicesSpeakDecisionLife PhilosophyCapitalismCoffeeTyrannyIdeologyAmerican Dream Author:Renata Salecl
“In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally good or equally bad. It is the narrowest decisions that are most ardently debated. If the world is lucky enough to enjoy peace, it may even one day make the discovery, to the horror of doctrinaire free-enterprisers and doctrinaire planners alike, that what is called capitalism and what is called socialism are both capable of working quite well.” IfsWorldWellsMayEnoughChoicesCoursesPoliticsPeaceEnjoyDecisionEconomyEconomicPolicyHorrorOne DayLuckyCapableDiscoveryCapitalismSocialismUsualPlannersEconomic PolicyEconomy And Economics Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“The largest 100 corporations hold 25 percent of the worldwide productive assets, which in turn control 75 percent of international trade and 98 percent of all foreign direct investment.The multinational corporation...puts the economic decision beyond the effective reach of the political process and its decision-makers, national governments.” GovernmentPoliticalTurnsProcessDecisionEconomicPercentCapitalismDirectTradeInvestmentInternationalCorporationsProductiveAssetsMakersMultinationalsDecision MakersInternational TradeMultinational Corporations Author:Peter Drucker
“The capitalistic social order, therefore, is an economic democracy in the strictest sense of the word. In the last analysis, all decisions are dependent on the will of the people as consumers. Thus, whenever there is a conflict between the consumers' views and those of the business managers, market pressures assure that the views of the consumers win out eventually.” PeopleLastsOrderWinningSocialDecisionViewsDemocracyEconomicConflictCapitalismPressureManagersConsumersAnalysisDependentSocial Order Book:On the Manipulation of Money and Credit Source: On the Manipulation of Money and Credit
“Capitalism is out of control, thanks in no small part to Citizens United, the Supreme Court decision which said that a corporation is a person, even though it doesn't eat, drink, make love, sing, raise children or take care of aging parents. You can't have a people's democracy as long as corporations are considered people.” PeopleChildrenPersonsLongSaidCareParentDecisionUnitedDemocracyCitizensDrinkCapitalismRaisesCourtAgingTake CareSupremeThanksCorporationsMaking LoveSupreme CourtSmall PartsCourt DecisionAging ParentsCitizens United Author:Bill Moyers
“If you mean by capitalism the God-given right of a few big corporations to make all the decisions that will affect millions of workers and consumers and to exclude everyone else from discussing and examining those decisions, then the unions are threatening capitalism.” IfsMeanBigsGivenDecisionMillionsCapitalismUnionsWorkersConsumersCorporationsThreateningDiscussingExaminingBig Corporations Author:Max Lerner
“People feel they are not participating in the decision-making process. Decisions are exclusive to those at the very top. You have grown up with crony capitalism and it creates ever more resentment.” PeopleFeelsProcessDecisionCapitalismDecision MakingResentmentExclusiveParticipatingDecision Making ProcessCroniesCrony Capitalism Author:Sri Mulyani Indrawati