Attention Economy


Thursday, February 7, 2019

A Better Version of Capitalism

Seven Fixes for American Capitalism
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-02-07/seven-fixes-for-american-capitalism

Terminology Matters
Paul Krugman notes:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/07/opinion/trump-socialism-state-of-the-union.html
“What Americans who support “socialism” actually want is what the rest of the world calls social democracy: A market economy, but with extreme hardship limited by a strong social safety net and extreme inequality limited by progressive taxation. They want us to look like Denmark or Norway, not Venezuela.”

Cass Sunstein observes:
“… most of the Americans who approve of socialism are likely to be thinking of something like Scandinavian-style social democracy, rather than something out of Karl Marx. But words matter, especially when they refer to systems of governance”.