Economic Capitalism

Retun to GC Chapters

• Made in the U.S.A.: Socialism for the Rich. Capitalism for the Rest (1/26/21)
• The Dark Side Of The Recovery Revealed In Big Data (10/27/20)
• "Feminist economists have argued that it fails to capture value-creating activities like domestic work and care, for instance, while environmentalists point out the absurdity of a metric which would show pollution increasing GDP because of the increased output and the money spent on cleaning it up. Mazzucato explains, “On top of those arguments, you have a problem that profits get confused with rents. We see this in the financial sector, where a hedge fund or transactions like a credit-default swap leads to a fee or a profit. We assume that equals value without asking a question: what are the market participants actually doing? Is anything productive happening here?”
• Walmart and McDonald's are among top employers of Medicaid and food stamp beneficiaries, report says (11-19-20)
• Unregulated ‘greenwashing’? ESG investing is under the microscope as the money rolls in (10-14-20)