Tag: Capitalism

You don't hate mondays, you hate capitalism

Protected: Creative Capitalism and how to deal with it

November 4, 2022November 23, 2022 Moritz Enter your password to view comments.

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Protected: A Capitalist Economy Cannot Be a Steady-State Economy.

Economic Development

November 29, 2020November 29, 2020 Sutthida Patamai Enter your password to view comments.

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Protected: Capitalism over the rise of kpop industry?

Public Economics

November 27, 2020November 25, 2020 Theerapong Kraiwattanapong Enter your password to view comments.

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Protected: The Neglected Innovator and Regulator: Public Sector

Public Economics

November 6, 2020November 6, 2020 Pete Enter your password to view comments.

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Protected: Why a Capitalist approach of economics will not resolve the Climate Crisis

Public Economics

October 14, 2019October 18, 2019 Jesse Lamme Enter your password to view comments.

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Capitalism and Democracy: Investors Prefer Stable Authoritarianism to “Dirty Democracy”

October 14, 2019November 1, 2020 Matthew H. Benton 1 comment

In this extended essay, I challenge recent political commentary claiming a mutually supportive relationship between capitalism and democracy, I shed light on the propaganda system surrounding such beliefs, and I argue that the Hong Kong protests stem from something deeper than defense of democracy – mainly capitalism at its core.

Christopher Robin: Some Reflections on the Capitalist Society and The Importance of Love

September 16, 2019September 16, 2019 Nasak Pongsri No comments

IF THERE IS ANYTHING POWERFUL ENOUGH TO OVERCOME CAPITALISM, IT IS LOVE.

Toy Story 4: Love as a violent disruption

September 14, 2019September 17, 2019 Nasak Pongsri No comments

Toy Story 4 doesn’t fit the formula of a typical love story that usually has a happy ending. That is just a romantic plot that capitalism uses over and over again! Instead, it ends with uncertainties. The theme of this film then is not what love can do for you; It is what you can do for love. Love, as captured by Toy Story 4, is a violent disruption to one’s life.

Self-Labeled “Capitalists” Who Do Not Quite Understand Capitalism

Political Economy

October 23, 2018October 2, 2019 Matthew H. Benton No comments

If society is to have any constructive discussion about our economic system and possible institutional changes for a better, more sustainable, future, we need to reach a mutual understanding about the system we currently have. Part of the problem stems from economics education, in which the term capitalism is rarely used.

Economists Should Promote Self-Esteem Through Non-Consumptive Means

Post-Growth Economics and Sustainability

October 13, 2018February 19, 2020 Matthew H. Benton 1 comment

Promoting self-esteem through non-consumptive means is more economic in the sense that it does not take as much energy and material throughput to achieve the same goal, nor does it come at the mental health cost of unrecognizably lowering self-esteem only to raise it back to a baseline level through the consumption of products.