Hausmann, Ricardo, (2015), “Does Capitalism Cause Poverty?”, Social Europe Journal, 31 Αυgust
Capitalism gets blamed for many things nowadays: poverty, inequality, unemployment, even global warming. As Pope Francis said in a recent speech in Bolivia: “This system is by now intolerable: farm workers find it intolerable, laborers find it intolerable, communities find it intolerable, peoples find it intolerable. The earth itself – our sister, Mother Earth, as Saint Francis would say – also finds it intolerable.”
Relevant Posts
- Pichelmann, Karl, (2015), “When ‘Secular Stagnation’ meets Piketty’s capitalism in the 21st century. Growth and inequality trends in Europe reconsidered”, European Commission publications, Economic Papers 551, June 2015
- Hall, P. (2014), “Varieties of Capitalism and the Euro Crisis”, West European Politics, Vol. 37, Issue 6, pp. 1223-1243.