Archivo etiqueta «Capitalismo»
By Ed Miliband, a member of the British Parliament and the leader of the Labour Party (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 27/01/12):
Is 20th-century capitalism failing 21st-century society? Members of the global elite debated that unusual question on Wednesday at the annual World Economic Forum.
There was a time, not long ago, when such a debate would have been held only among the protesters who annually shelter in igloos farther down the Alpine slopes. So it is encouraging that more than three years since the global financial crisis, a belated process of soul-searching has begun in search of the … Seguir leyendo
By Charles A. Kupchan, professor of international affairs at Georgetown University and senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is the author of the forthcoming book No One’s World: The West, the Rising Rest, and the Coming Global Turn. A longer version of this essay appears in the current issue of Foreign Affairs (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 20/12/11):
A crisis of governability has beset the Western world. It is no accident that the United States, Europe and Japan are simultaneously experiencing political breakdown; globalization is producing a widening gap between what electorates are asking of their … Seguir leyendo
By Timothy Garton Ash, a contributing editor to Opinion, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and professor of European studies at Oxford University and the author, most recently, of Facts Are Subversive (LOS ANGELES TIMES, 28/01/11):
Three Davos summits on from the West’s Great Crash, we begin to see where we are. This is not the total collapse of liberal democratic capitalism that some had feared at the dramatic World Economic Forum meeting here in early 2009, but nor is it the great reform of Western capitalism, then the devout hope of Davos.
Western capitalism survives, but limping, … Seguir leyendo
By Christian Marazzi, professor and director of socio-economic research at the Scuola Universitaria della Svizzera Italiana and is the author of the Violence of Financial Capitalism (THE GUARDIAN, 14/09/10):
The European sovereign debt crisis, which was caused by member states’ public debt but increased because of the actions taken to rescue the banks after the 2008 crisis, demonstrates at least three things. First, that currency does not exist without a state. Second, that capitalism cannot be managed by the market alone. And third, that the austerity measures will not bring Europe out of the crisis but will in fact … Seguir leyendo
By Anatole Kaletsky (THE TIMES, 12/09/08):
Whatever happened to the triumph of global capitalism? Even more than “the end of history”, the idea that “we’re all capitalists now” became an article of faith around the world from the early 1990s onwards. In the past few years even the few holdouts – countries such as Libya, Cuba and North Korea – seemed on the point of acknowledging that markets, competition and private enterprise were the only rational way of organising economic life, regardless of politics or history or religion or national cultures.
But just as the triumph appeared to be complete … Seguir leyendo
Por Guy Sorman (ABC, 25/02/08):
EL crecimiento estadounidense se ralentiza: ¿es ésta una crisis estadounidense o es la crisis del capitalismo? En la izquierda europea, los que se adaptan mal a los éxitos de la economía de mercado siguen esperando, en su fuero interno, una gran ruptura revolucionaria. ¿Y si Marx, en el fondo, tenía razón? Incluso en Estados Unidos, la izquierda en campaña electoral acoge esta «crisis» con cierto júbilo; le es indispensable que con George W. Bush todo vaya mal, sobre todo cuando Irak va mejor. Para los medios de comunicación, que en todo el mundo adoran las … Seguir leyendo
By Jonathan Freedland (THE GUARDIAN, 05/12/07):
Think about climate change long enough and you soon realise that it’s more than our lightbulbs that we’re going to have to change. Colleagues have already argued on these pages this week, as delegates gather in Bali to hammer out a global accord to avert this catastrophe, that a much more fundamental overhaul will be required, a war on carbon as fierce as the 1940s war on fascism. Madeleine Bunting suggested a return to wartime rationing, in order to curb a hyper-consumerism that is palpably unsustainable.
One could go further, arguing that it is … Seguir leyendo
By William Rees-Mogg (THE TIMES, 30/07/07):
When presidents of the United States make reassuring statements about the stock market, investors with any historic memory prepare to run for the hills. The most famous example was Herbert Hoover after the 1929 crash: “The business of America is sound.”
Last week global stock markets fell heavily. On Friday President Bush commented that: “The world economy is strong.” Until that point, I felt fairly sure that what was happening in stock markets was a relatively minor correction, a response of the equity markets to the problems of the debt markets. Now I am … Seguir leyendo
By Andrew Murray, chair of the Stop the War Coalition and communications director of the TGWU. See also ‘Global Capitalism…‘ (THE GUARDIAN, 08/03/07):
For nearly two decades, the Thatcherite dictum that “there is no alternative” has been used to stifle serious challenge to the way the world is run, and right now there seems to be an increasingly urgent insistence that there is only one possible social and economic future for us all. It isn’t just the hard men of the moneyed right asserting that capitalism is the only way to order human affairs. Liberals are also … Seguir leyendo
By Timothy Garton Ash (THE GUARDIAN, 22/02/07):
What is the elephant in all our rooms? It is the global triumph of capitalism. Democracy is fiercely disputed. Freedom is under threat even in old-established democracies such as Britain. Western supremacy is on the skids. But everyone does capitalism. Americans and Europeans do it. Indians do it. Russian oligarchs and Saudi princes do it. Even Chinese communists do it. And now the members of Israel’s oldest kibbutz, that last best hope of egalitarian socialism, have voted to introduce variable salaries based on individual performance. Karl Marx would be turning in his grave. … Seguir leyendo