| 书目名称 | On Capitalism and Inequality | | 副标题 | Progress and Poverty | | 编辑 | Robert U. Ayres | | 视频video | | | 概述 | In this important and engaging book, Ayres explains why.Freedom to choose cannot be absolute, nor can equality of incomes or outcomes be guaranteed.Competition among equals is productive, but cooperat | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .Capitalism is under attack. Defenders say that capitalism has raised billions of people from poverty. But a central activity of capitalism today, Wall Street style, is speculation (gambling), using other people’s money, and privatizing the profits while socializing the debts. Skeptics argue that capitalism has redistributed the wealth of the planet in favor of a very few, meanwhile leaving the planet in bad shape and leaving billions of people out in the cold. Wealth is now extremely mal-distributed, opportunity is far from equal, and upward social mobility has declined significantly in recent decades. This book reviews the evidence and arguments pro and con in considerable detail..The evidence is mixed. The main virtue of capitalism is its emphasis on competition as a driver of innovation and, thus, of economic growth. It is true that economic growth has accelerated in recent centuries, and it is true that billions of people have been lifted from poverty. But it is not necessarily true that intense “winner take all” competition in the marketplace is the explanation for growth. Neoclassical economic theory posits that self-interest is the primary motive for all economic decisions, | | 出版日期 | Book 2020 | | 关键词 | universal basic income; economics and sustainability; Homo economicus; winner takes all capitalism; comp | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39651-0 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-39653-4 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-39651-0 | | copyright | Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 |
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