Greed, one of the badliest capital sins, is not good, is not good for knolege, love, money. Greed "the capital sin" is necessary
Since the 1970S, financial innovations such as the securitisation of mortgage debt and the spreading of investment risks through the creation of derivative markets, all tacitly (and now, as we see, actually) backed by state power, have permitted a ...
The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.
The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to establish means of communication and transportation, was enormous.
Today humanity faces a stark choice: save the planet and ditch capitalism, or save capitalism and ditch the planet.
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank.
The kind of capitalism I hate most is crony capitalism, the friends who decide. These are things which should be killed in Russia.
The trade deficit is the capital surplus and don't ever think of having a capital surplus as being a bad thing for our country.
I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment.
Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women.
Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
The West is a civilization that has survived all the prophecies of its collapse with a singular stratagem. Just as the bourgeoisie had to deny itself as a class in order to permit the bourgeoisification of society as a whole, from the worker to the b...
I'm a big believer in random capitalization. The rules of capitalization are so unfair to the words in the middle. (32)
A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
As the new endogenous growth theory suggests, TFP growth is closely related to accumulation of the intangible capitals, such as human capital and research and development.
This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.
I argue that one of the functions of a capitalist state is to defend capitalism from itself, to defend capitalism from the capitalists.
The government (or humanity) would not permit capital punishment for one man, but they permitted the murder of millions a little at a time.
We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital.
In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
