“The free enterprise concept inherent in the economic model of capitalism should mean common people, or lower and middle class wage-earners, have greater potential to rise up and gain financial independence. In reality, however, free enterprise all too often leads to an almost total lack of government regulation that in turn allows the global elite to run amuck in Gordon Gecko-style financial coups.” PeopleShouldMeanRealityGovernmentRunningTurnsCommonClassGreaterEconomicMiddleStyleModelsConceptsCapitalismGainsIndependenceFinancialEnterpriseMiddle ClassElitesRegulationInherentFree EnterpriseCoupsGovernment RegulationFinancial IndependenceEconomic Models Author:James Morcan
“The fight against capitalism has many aspects, particularly the distinctive economic models that concentrate the capital in few hands.” HandsFightingEconomicModelsCapitalismAspectDistinctiveEconomic Models Author:Evo Morales
“A new model of heroic capitalism based on principle-driven, free-market entrepreneurship deserves a central place in business-ethics thought and action.” ActionPrinciplesModelsEthicsDeserveCapitalismDrivenEntrepreneurshipHeroicFree MarketThoughts And ActionsBusiness Ethics Author:Robert L. Bradley, Jr.
“Most of Marx's predictions have failed to materialize, and his labor theory of value and other ideas have been proven wrong. Marx failed to recognize the incentive system built into the capitalist model - consumer choice and the profit motive of the entrepreneur. The irony is that capitalism, not socialism or Marxism, that has liberated the worker from the chains of poverty, monopoly, war, and oppression, and has better achieved Marx's vision of a millennium of hope, peace, abundance, leisure, and aesthetic expression for the 'full' human being.” HumansHas BeensIdeasWarValuesChoicesHuman BeingsVisionPovertyExpressionTheoryModelsCapitalismBuiltLaborEntrepreneurWorkersProfitSocialismOppressionChainsConsumersIronyMotiveAbundanceAestheticCapitalistLeisureProvenPredictionsIncentivesMonopolyMarxismLiberatedMillenniumProfit MotiveProven WrongConsumer Choice Author:Mark Skousen
“Early Charlie Munger is a horrible career model for the young, because not enough was delivered to civilization in return for what was wrested from capitalism. And other similar career models are even worse.” EnoughYoungCareersReturnCivilizationModelsCapitalismHorribleCharlie Author:Charlie Munger
“The main argument is that capitalism is constituted by a varied of different practices, and so challenging capitalism needs to be about a variety of struggles. I draw on the important work of J.K. Gibson-Graham, who argues that we should model anti-capitalist struggle on feminist struggles.” NeedsShouldImportantDifferentChallengesPracticeStruggleModelsDrawsCapitalismArgumentFeministArguingVarietyCapitalistImportant Work Author:Cynthia Kauffman
“As far as Marx's analysis of capitalism, there's a lot of very useful ideas in it, but he's developing an abstract model of 19th century capitalism. It's abstract and it's changed.” IdeasCenturyChangedModelsCapitalismDevelopingAnalysisAbstract19th Century Author:Noam Chomsky
“Poverty is about low, self-esteem and a lack of role models and opportunities. Without money, people resort to de-dignifying activities in order to support themselves. We free people through education and entrepreneurship. Freedom is self-determination, and you can't self-determine without understanding money and capitalism.” PeopleSelfOrderOpportunityUnderstandingFreedomMoneyEducationPovertyRolesSupportSelf EsteemActivityModelsLowsSelf ImprovementCapitalismDeterminationEntrepreneurDetermineDeterminedEsteemEntrepreneurshipRole ModelsSelf DeterminationLackingKey To SuccessResortsRoad To SuccessLow Self EsteemDetermination MotivationalCauses Of Poverty Author:John Hope Bryant
“I see myself, in terms of the question of capitalism, as I would support democratic socialism over a capitalist system, because any approach... or participatory economics, which is another great model that people like Michael Albert are putting out there... any system that encourages us to think about interdependency, and to be able to use the world's resources in a wiser way, for the good of the whole, would be better for the world than capitalism.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayWholeUseWould BeAbleTermSupportApproachModelsCapitalismResourcesEconomicsDemocraticSocialismCapitalistWiserDemocratic Socialism Author:Bell Hooks
“Our current model of capitalism and the dominant ideas in policy making have led to a failure of investment by both the public and the private sector in the things that drive productivity, and which affect its distribution.” IdeasPolicyModelsCapitalismInvestmentCurrentsProductivityDominantDistributionPrivate SectorPolicy Making Author:Mariana Mazzucato
“As a businessman, Donald Trump has been associated with some of the worst excesses of a particular style of value-extracting and asset stripping capitalism: set up businesses, let them fail, avoid paying suppliers, use bankruptcy laws to avoid taxes for decades, then set up another business somewhere else. It is this model that is the cause of many problems we see today.” Has BeensUseProblemTodayLawValuesCausesFailingWorstStyleParticularTrumpTaxesModelsCapitalismDecadesAssetsExcessBusinessmanSomewhere ElseBankruptcyStrippingSuppliers Author:Mariana Mazzucato
“We often confuse or loosely use the ideas of crony capitalism or neoliberalism to actually avoid using the word "capitalism", but once you've actually seen, let's say, what's happening in India and the United States - that this model of US economics packaged in a carton that says "democracy" is being forced on countries all over the world, militarily if necessary, has in the United States itself resulted in 400 of the richest people owning wealth equivalent [to that] of half of the population.” PeopleIfsWorldIdeasCountryStatesUseWealthUnitedHalfUnited StatesDemocracyModelsHappeningsCapitalismEconomicsIndiaPopulationNeoliberalismCroniesCrony Capitalism Author:Arundhati Roy
“I often think that the reason capitalism hasn't completely destroyed everything is that a huge amount of anti-capitalist endeavor goes on, from labors of love, nurture, friendship, and barter to gift economies and different kinds of exchanges, not just one alternate model but a whole host of other ways in which we engage with each other and with the world that aren't financial and debt-based.” ThinkingWorldWayKindDifferentReasonWholeEconomyHugeGoes OnAmountModelsCapitalismLaborFinancialDebtDestroyedJust OneEndeavorHostCapitalistDifferent KindsNurtureLabor Of Love Author:Rebecca Solnit
“Self-dealing, essentially, occurs when managers run companies to line their own pockets instead of those of the companies' owners. It's been a perennial problem in American capitalism and became a real dilemma when America moved toward a model in which corporations would be run by professional managers who had only small ownership stakes.” RealSelfProblemWould BeRunningAmericaLinesCompanyModelsCapitalismMovedManagersCorporationsPocketsOwnersStakesOwnershipDilemmaAmerican Capitalism Author:James Surowiecki
“We must reduce all the emissions that are destroying the planet. However, that requires a change in lifestyle, a change in the economic model: We must go from capitalism to socialism.” EconomicPlanetsModelsCapitalismLifestyleSocialismDestroyingEmissionsEconomic Models Author:Hugo Chavez
“In principle as a philosophy, a model of organising society, Communism has to be respected. As regards the use of certain methods to advance social justice and greater regulation by the state, there are certain methods that are useful. What we need is a new society, a new civilization and convergence of all that is best in both [Communism and Capitalism]” NeedsStatesPhilosophyUseCertainSocialJusticePrinciplesGreaterCommunicationCivilizationModelsCapitalismRegardMethodSocial JusticeCommunismRegulationConvergence Author:Mikhail Gorbachev
“I wish we questioned the aid model as much as we are questioning the capitalism model. Sometimes the most generous thing you can do is just say no.” SometimesWishCan DoModelsCapitalismEconomicsAidsGenerousQuestioningSaying NoJust Say No Author:Dambisa Moyo
“I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources.” ThinkingWayShouldTryingBelieveHelpingI BelieveGrowthCompanyFailingDemandModelsDeserveCapitalismResourcesDestructionBlameAcceptedEndlessDestruction Of Nature Author:Yvon Chouinard
“The worst enemy of humanity is U.S. capitalism. That is what provokes uprisings like our own, a rebellion against a system, against a neoliberal model, which is the representation of a savage capitalism. If the entire world doesn't acknowledge this reality, that the national states are not providing even minimally for health, education and nourishment, then each day the most fundamental human rights are being violated.” IfsWorldHumansStatesRealityHumanityEnemyRightsWorstHealthModelsCapitalismFundamentalsHuman RightsAcknowledgeEach DayRebellionProvidingSavagesRepresentationProvokingNourishmentWorst EnemyUprisingHealth Education Author:Evo Morales
“The collapse of the world's banking system and the impending disaster of accelerating climate change are not separate phenomena. They are simply the most visible symptoms of a particular model of capitalism that will bring civilisation to its knees. But those symptoms will not get sorted unless and until we commit to a radical transformation of the way we create and distribute wealth in the world today” WorldWayTodayWealthParticularModelsCapitalismTransformationClimateClimate ChangeDisasterCommitRadicalKneesVisibleCollapseSymptomsBankingWorld TodayCivilisationBanking System Author:Jonathon Porritt