Capitalism debate continues
Written by Steven Schwartz on January 5th, 2009
Those who enjoyed the Macquarie University Vice-Chancellor’s debate on “Capitalism is bad for the soul” will also enjoy the recent John Templeton Foundation Big Question Discussion titled “Does the free market corrode moral character?“.
The economists, philosophers, authors and politicians who participated broadly agreed that markets reflect human traits rather than the other way around. […]
Bad Marx for capitalism?
Written by Steven Schwartz on October 23rd, 2008
Karl Marx is back in fashion. Sales of Das Kapital are booming as the “world realizes” it was in this book that Marx predicted capitalism would destroy itself.
According to German publisher Jörn Schütrumpf these new readers are “those of a young academic generation, who have come to recognise that the neoliberal promises of happiness have […]