Capitalism and Democracy by Alex Merced Detractors to Capitalism often will make satire of the idea of "the invisible hand" as if Free Market Capitalist believe there is an actual invisible hand. The Invisible hand is a metaphor for much more beautiful and plausible idea; that the actions and...
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Alex Merced
on Wed, Aug 11 2010
Filed under: Regulation, Individualism, Trading Markets, Capitalism, Democracy, Individuality
Capitalism, Socialism, and Voluntarism by Alex Merced People blame all the worlds problems on it's systems of resource management, for in the end that is all that Capitalism and Socialism are, systems to managing scarce resources. Quality of life, happiness, joy; these are all things that are not...
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Alex Merced
on Mon, Aug 9 2010
Filed under: Prices, Voluntarism, Anarchism, Social Net, Capitalism, Socialism
The productive elements of the US economy are caught between powerful financial interests, e.g., banks seeking speculative gains, political constituencies seeking entitlements and government entities at all levels whose budgets and deficits are too large compared to their revenues. All three factions...
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Ron Hera
on Mon, Jul 19 2010
Filed under: Federal reserve, debt, GDP, Asia, Asian Tigers, China, central bank, Federal Budget, unemployment, Deindustrialization, Bailouts, Capitalism, Corporatism, Trade Deficit, Socialism, Totalitarianism, Offshoring, Outsourcing, Service Economy
(Originally posted at damienmanier.com ) One of the roles of government, debated even among those of a libertarian or small government perspective, is that of regulating monopolies and ensuring competition. On a larger political scale, the debate may focus on how free or how socialized should a market...
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Damien Manier
on Tue, Mar 30 2010
Filed under: capitalism, corporatism, corporate welfare, libertarian, free market, license, natural monopoly, public utility, privatization, patent, monopoly, competition
Here is a short essay I wrote for my American Government Class on Corporate Welfare. I hope to further explore and expand on the ideas presented in the future. I always appreciate suggested sources and helpful comments. Enjoy! Corporations are firms or companies (private, publicly traded, for profit...