capitalism
Today's guest is John Mackey, the co-founder and former CEO of Whole Foods, who just released his memoir, The Whole Story: Adventures in Love, Life, and Capitalism. As befits the entrepreneur who revolutionized grocery shopping from a grim, pragmatic necessity into an exciting, multi-sensory adventure, Mackey's story is far from conventional and we talk frankly about the failures, successes, and psychedelics he encountered while reshaping how Americans think about food, fitness, and free enterprise. We also discuss Love.Life, the chain of holistic health and wellness clubs he's opening this su...
Reason
My guest today is economist and podcaster Glenn Loury, whose new memoir is titled Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative. Born in 1948 and raised working-class in Chicago's predominantly African American South Side, Loury tells a story of self-invention, ambition, hard work, addiction, and redemption that channels Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, Richard Wright's Native Son, Saul Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March, and Milton Friedman's Capitalism & Freedom. The first tenured black economist at Harvard, Loury emerged in the 1980s as a ubiquitous commenter on race and class ...
Reason
The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society, by Joseph E. Stiglitz, W.W. Norton & Company, 384 pages, $29.99 Joseph Stiglitz, a former chief economist of the World Bank, thinks that taxation is a precondition for freedom, not a threat to it. The current political problem, he argues in The Road to Freedom, is that the right (which for Stiglitz includes libertarians as well as conservatives) rejects the Founding Fathers' idea of no taxation without representation in favor of opposing any taxation at all. This is a problem, he continues, because market failures are more extensive and seve...
Reason
Table of Content Introduction.The day work disappeared.A rising tide lifts all boats.Measures dictate outcomes.We’re all in it together.Small is Big.Toxic investment culture.The invisible hand.Benefit Insurance.Manufacture or bust.Public sponsored brainwashing.System Reset.The Empire of Lies.IntroductionOur economy affects everybody and every aspect of our life; health, security, work, home, education, pensions, investments, social services and the environment, plus so much more. Therefore, it must work in the interest of the majority, not the interests of a small minority, because it affects ...
ValueWalk
Excerpted from What Capitalism Needs: Forgotten Lessons of Great Economists by John L. Campbell and John A. Hall, on sale September 2, 2021. © Cambridge University Press 2021 and reprinted with permission. All rights reserved. Q1 2021 hedge fund letters, conferences and more The Instabilities Of CapitalismConventional economics assumes that markets tend toward equilibrium – that is, that problems such as slack demand, unemployment, or even financial crises such as that of 2008 will eventually resolve themselves. We do not share that assumption, which is why we believe that state capacities and...
ValueWalk
This weekend’s reading comes from my colleague Gary Alexander, and draws from his tour of China 25 years ago with a group of investors. He reflects on what he saw then to what we are witnessing now with China‘s emergence. This is a thoughtful weekend read that may shed some light on policy initiatives and the market’s response. Q1 2021 hedge fund letters, conferences and more China's Adoption Of CapitalismCapitalism is the only system that works – it’s just a matter of which type of capitalism works better, the “Asian” model of authoritarian leadership and energetic, unfettered (less regulated...
ValueWalk
The World Economic Forum is calling on every nation in the world to participate in what it calls “the Great Reset of capitalism.” The Great Reset Initiative aims to reshape the world in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Although the WEF has avoided using the word “socialism,” the policies it is calling for essentially amount to global socialism.Q3 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and moreWhy the world may need a Great ResetThe World Economic Forum argued in one of its many articles about the Great Reset that there are many reasons to pursue the initiative but that the coronavirus is the m...
ValueWalk
閲覧を続けるには、ノアドット株式会社が「プライバシーポリシー」に定める「アクセスデータ」を取得することを含む「nor.利用規約」に同意する必要があります。
「これは何?」という方はこちら