American Studies by V. O. Pechatnov

“…Back in 1934 he published a monograph "On the history of capitalism in the United States," which initiated a series of research culminating in the fundamental work "The United States. …”
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Countryside Middle Class Growth in Brazil and its Impacts on Domestic Tourism by Anderson Pereira Portuguez, Vanda Aparecida da Silva Alves

“…There is still much to be studied about the Brazilian middle class and, in this sense, this article is a contribution to the efforts many researchers have been making to understand it.In a previous study (Portuguez, 2010a), we have already argued that without middle class there is no possibility for capitalism to maintain itself using the framework it has taken in this present time, neither any possibility of a significant economic contribution through tourism, once the clientele that comprises the controversial “mass tourism” is exactly the middle class. …”
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Comparison of philosophical foundations and consumption theory in Islamic economy with capitalist economy (Focusing on Keynes' consumption theory) by Rezai Ahmadali

“…Unlike the two systems of capitalism and socialism, in both of which consumption is only for the satisfaction of material needs, in Islam, in addition to material needs, some spiritual needs such as charity and some religious obligations also affect consumption. …”
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Is Communism Incompatible with Religion?: Islam and Communism in Haji Misbach's Thoughts (1914-1926) by Syaidina Sapta Wilandra

“…In his writings, Haji Misbach presented communism as an analytical tool to criticize capitalism and colonialism. However, at the same time Haji Misbach also never discussed philosophically or theologically how the concept of materialism in the ideology of communism worked. …”
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The financialization of healthcare by Norberto Montani Martins, Carlos Ocké-Reis

“…In contemporary capitalism, finance has extended its reach to encompass a growing array of economic sectors traditionally associated with public provisioning or social policy, with healthcare emerging as a prominent domain where fictitious capital has flourished. …”
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Liberal Way of Life as a Political Philosophical Problem: Review of the Book: Lefebvre, A. (2024). Liberalism as a Way of Life. Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University Press, 285 p... by Vladimir A. Gutorov, Aleksandr A. Shirinyants

“…Lefebvre, a mixture of liberalism and other ideologies and systems, including capitalism (with its individualism, materialism and instrumentalism), democracy (with its latent populism), nationalism and internationalism (with their patriotism and often chauvinism), meritocracy (with its calculations of value and reward), as well as overtly illiberal forces. …”
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Notes on Post-criticality: Towards an Architecture of Reflexive Modernisation by Robert Cowherd

“…In apparent rejection of the isolation and purity of critical architecture’s orthodoxy, Rem Koolhaas and others have chosen engagement with the forces (and commissions) of late capitalism to which the term ‘post-criticality’ has been applied. …”
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Pascal Grouiez, Les stratégies des communautés et la régulation sectorielle et territoriale des configurations productives : le cas de l’agroalimentaire russe by Pascal Grouiez

“…To defend their individual and collective interests the actors create some legal structures on the land market which prevent the standard capitalism development in the Russian agriculture. These legal structures are based on the construction of the land as a collective patrimony.…”
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International Organizations: the Main Factors of Emergence and Development by L. S. Voronkov

“…The article presents the main factors that in later stages of internationalization and development of contemporary international relations gave the impetus to emergence and development of international organizations, including the military-technological revolution, that gave birth to mass destruction weapons and avalanche-like growth of the number of human and material losses during wars and military conflicts, the Cold War between world communism and world capitalism, the collapse of the colonial system and formation ofa new main contradiction of the world politics between the "Club of rich countries" and states of the "global periphery", beginning of development of regional integration processes and, finally, the emergence of global problems. …”
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From Loan Sharks to Commercial Banks: Moral Crusades and the Segmentation of the Credit Market in the United States, 1900-1945 by Simon Bittmann

“…Second, our research analyses the moral and political construction of a legitimate “business” of unsecured lending, through the study of the crusades and controversies targeting “loan sharks”, a certain class of creditors which gravitated on the fringe of industrial capitalism until the mid-1940s. This work in economic sociology contributes to a growing body of studies of market moralization processes, but it relies on insights from the sociology of organization, public action, social movements and law in order to understand more precisely how the resolution of a public problem, and the legal evolution it produces, as well as the frames and normative settings on which political action dwells, can impact the shape and the structure of the market. …”
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The Economics of Immortality: The Demi-Immortal Oriental, Enlightenment Vitalism, and Political Economy in Dracula by J. Jeffrey Franklin

“…Dracula has fulfilled the ambition of Dracula: it has colonized and enthralled the industrial and post-industrial Western world, achieved the integration into modern free-market capitalism that its namesake was unable to achieve. …”
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Problematic issues of using the toolkit of economic cybernetics by V. Persianov, A. Kurbatova

“…It is noted, that the thesis about cybernetically expedient functioning of any social systems (this point of view is shared by some specialists in cybernetics) contradicts common sense. Capitalism would have to be seen as a planned system, alien to the anarchy of production, and in fact as a system, which solves pre-set tasks corresponding to the interests of society. …”
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Budgeting and Performance of Financial Institutions: A Case Study of Lyamujungu SACCO in Kabale Municipality. by Arinaitwe, Yosam

“…Some respondents showed that budgeting in business organizations is formally associated with the advent of industrial capitalism. The study concludes that there is a role played by budgeting in the performance of Lyamujungu Sacco the findings showed that Lyamujungu Sacco practiced budgeting on whatever transaction they were making, it was therefore concluded that improved communication, budgeting, financial control of inputs, planning, and coordination were the roles played by budgeting, increased profits, reduces wastage of resources, were the other roles played by budgeting in MFis. …”
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PRESIDENT TRUMPS’ STRATEGY: CONTINUITY AND NEW APPROACHES by O. V. Prikhodko, P. Ye. Smirnov

“…The 45th President has virtually resigned the liberal globalist paradigm, he is highly sсeptical about key transnational institutions of the world order, he would not hesitate to withdraw from key agreements signed by the United States if these agreements do not suit the current team in the White House. Trump’s national capitalism, his trade protectionist practices have caused a major crisis between the United States and its partners and allies, enhanced tensions with rival states.The authors of this article compare basic philosophic and doctrinal elements of Trump’s ‘grand strategy’ and major practical steps by his administration in the foreign and trade policies. …”
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The Genesis of APEC: Economic Diplomacy of Australia, Japan, and the United States (On the 30^th Anniversary of the Forum) by A. A. Sidorov

“…APEC emerged at a turning point in international relations history as the break-up of the socialist camp ruled out the alternative to capitalism model of social and political development and created new opportunities for internationalization of production. …”
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Building with Jelly, or, Concrete as the Concretion of the Abstract by Alan Díaz Alva

“…Expanding Jappe’s value-critical analysis of reinforced concrete with Moishe Postone’s account of how the peculiar social ‘self-mediating’ character of abstract labour in capitalism explains the transformation of labour into pure means and of its tools and products in mere objects, I intend to complement the question of cosmotechnics with an explanation of the decline of technodiversity grounded on the abstract logic of capital. …”
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Reform or transform? A spectrum of stances towards the economic status quo within ‘new economics’ discourses by Sam J. Buckton, Jasper O. Kenter, Nibedita Mukherjee, Sandra Waddock, Annela Anger-Kraavi, Simone Martino, Ioan Fazey, Adam P. Hejnowicz, Jane Kabubo-Mariara, Jordan O. Lafayette, Kristen Locy, Chris Scarr

“…We interpreted authors’ stances towards six key status quo themes: capitalism; neoliberalism; GDP-based economic growth; debt-based money; globalisation; and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). …”
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Turismo en Mallorca by Macià Blázquez Salom

“…Growthism, in Jason Hickle's apt definition, perpetuates this model as a solution to the contradictions inherent in capitalism, which are expressed in the form of crises such as those we are suffering as a result of the speculative financialization of the hotel industry (the Blackstone investment fund is now the largest hotel owner in Spain), the climate emergency or the worsening of social inequality. …”
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Soviet Russia/the USSR and transformation of the international relations system in the first half of the 1920s by E. V. Romanova

“…While the largest European states, Great Britain and Germany in particular, were interested in involving the Soviet state in the system of trade and economic relations (to get access to its resources in order to restore their own economies, and to open up the prospect of transforming the Soviet system towards capitalism), the Soviet leaders considered access to the European market as a necessary condition for the industrialization which was seen as the key to survival of the first socialist state in a hostile capitalist environment. …”
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Turismo en Mallorca by Macià Blázquez Salom

“…Growthism, in Jason Hickle's apt definition, perpetuates this model as a solution to the contradictions inherent in capitalism, which are expressed in the form of crises such as those we are suffering as a result of the speculative financialization of the hotel industry (the Blackstone investment fund is now the largest hotel owner in Spain), the climate emergency or the worsening of social inequality. …”
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