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SPECIAL REPORTS

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Special Reports for " Urban and Suburban"

Capitalism: Promise and Pitfalls

Yvette Watson/World & I 

Introduction
Many observers, probably beginning with Max Weber, have recognized that capitalism is far more than an economic system; it is actually an ...

Capitalism and the Third Industrial Revolution
Three hundred years ago, when the only computer was the abacus and the leveraged buyout was far in the future, life was almost as ...

The Pope Embraces Market Economics: Centesimus Annus as a Study in Doctrinal Development
In a higher world it is otherwise, but here below to live to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often. --John Henry Newman ...

Poverty: Capitalist Weapons for the War on Poverty
Liberals have long monopolized the debate over how best to help the poor--whether the issue be how to help the working poor or how to help ...

American Entrepreneurship: Its Rise and Decline
The luster is fading and tarnish is setting in on America's economic reputation. The United States no longer epitomizes an efficient ...

Responses to Rothman: A Pivotal Question Unanswered
I find much to sympathize with in Professor Rothman's view of American entrepreneurship. Like him, I am made profoundly uneasy by ...

Responses to Rothman: Constitutional Erosion Caused Capitalist Decay
Undoubtedly, historical traditions and cultural factors play a significant role in political and economic development, but they should not ...

Responses to Rothman: Capitalism Itself Corrupts
Edith Wharton, hardly an uncritical admirer of the commercial classes of nineteenth-century New York, grudgingly praised them in her ...

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