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his relatively free-market policies allowed Chile to flourish financially and become the leader in South America by several economic indicators.

It has since triggered a positive feedback loop. A significant part of the venture capital community has adopted Carlota’s system as the bedrock of their investment theses. In turn, investors echoing Carlota’s ideas in their day-to-day practices have had the effect of getting her even more interested in technology. As of now, Carlota has become one

A few examples include: Greed is good. Maximizing pleasure from consumption is the goal. A billion acts of selfishness will lead to a prosperous society. The social duty of business is just to maximize its profits. There’s no such thing as society, only individuals—that was Margaret Thatcher’s famous quote. Markets are efficient; other institutions

The Principle of Growth: We should maximize the rate of sustainable economic growth, defined in terms of a concept such as Wealth Plus.

economic development is based not on the ability of a pocket of the economy to consume but on the ability of people to turn their dreams into reality. Economic development is not the ability to buy but the ability to make.

If right now you think I’m a horrible, marauding, free-market monster, you’re only half-right—I’m also a humanist who thinks there are better things for our children to do with their time. The quicker we eliminate the low-paying, repetitive, and menial jobs, the quicker our species can get to work on bigger issues like sustainability, being

But opponents of state intervention didn’t lay down their arms. Fueled by ideological fervor, the fear of communism, and in-depth works by prominent economists, the ideological warfare against state intervention began again right after World War II in the form of neoliberalism[381]. It gained steam because of major societal changes. The rising

De cette enfance et de cette éducation aristocratiques, Tocqueville conserva la compréhension des valeurs de la noblesse, le sens de la grandeur et la détestation de la médiocrité.