• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: An Economic Viewpoint on Capitalism Bashing
  • Contributor: Burnete, Sorin
  • imprint: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2016
  • Published in: Studies in Business and Economics
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1515/sbe-2016-0031
  • ISSN: 2344-5416
  • Keywords: Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) ; Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) ; Social Psychology
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  • Description: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>In this paper I discuss two long disputed notions: that capitalism without crises is a fallacy respectively that capitalism bashing, however severe, will not endanger the system itself. Yet proving both is not an easy task since the capitalism issue has always been a cupellation of theory, ideology and political precepts, which are controversial and hard to disentangle. That capitalism detractors are numberless is a truism. Yet criticism against capitalism, however fierce, has always been clearly delineated. Not any more: globalization has rendered the picture dangerously fuzzy. It is now hard to ascertain whether someone who will harangue about the ostensible evils of globalization is also a declared anti-capitalist. The blend of capitalism and globalization seems to be pure dynamite.</jats:p>
  • Access State: Open Access