1. Moreover, liberal capitalism offered the individual worker distinct prospects of improvement on bourgeois terms, which large bodies of the labouring population were unable or unwilling to seize. 2. But, as economist Robert Heilbroner has observed, liberal capitalism subverts traditional economic arrangements. 3. From Mexico on south, conservative, centrist and progressive clerics are howling over the social costs of the liberal capitalism now popular among Latin American leaders. 4. Liberal capitalism stood alone and would eventually be embraced by the world. 5. Liberal capitalism has co-opted many of its staunchest critics. 6. So the West evolved liberal capitalism, and Asia has tilted toward authoritarian capitalism. 7. Specifically, could liberal capitalism substitute striving for gain in place of striving for the glory of war and conquest? 8. This former State Department official argued that no great challenges to Western-style liberal capitalism were likely to arise and so, ideologically speaking, history had ended. 9. -- Liberal capitalism and free trade, |