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Market Capitalism Should Benefit the Many, Not Just the Few
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Market Capitalism Should Benefit the Many, Not Just the Few

Can 2017 Be the Year We Finally Make It Happen?

John Evans
World Economic Forum, 2017
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Across the developed world, elected leaders are grappling with economic and political upheavals. Tumultuous events such as Brexit, the 2016 US presidential election and European populist turmoil demonstrate that many citizens feel betrayed by their governments’ failure to deliver across-the-board economic progress. Trade union expert John Evans explains the forces behind the current malaise. He points to the need for government-centric solutions to reduce high structural unemployment and shrink income inequality gaps to reignite economic expansion. getAbstract recommends Evans’s insightful article to policy makers, executives and investors interested in exploring ways to achieve robust economic revival.

Take-Aways

  • Citizens of the advanced economies are pushing back against high unemployment, low growth, income inequality and globalization.
  • Monetary policy measures alone are unable to stimulate economic growth.
  • With interest rates at historically low levels, fiscal policies could stimulate demand and create jobs.

About the Author

John Evans is the general secretary of the OECD’s Trade Union Advisory Committee.

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    A. J. 6 years ago
    The elected are not self-appointed (if the instituted systems of democratic exercise of rights that supposedly elected them into position are to be believed). These general "public" servants need to handle the basics set out by various Constitutions and get out of the way of the people they claim to serve. Their imbalanced micro-managing (in favour of narrow/extreme ideologies) has resulted in corporate fascism.
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    T. G. 7 years ago
    It is this kind of thinking that has hindered free enterprise. The idea that the government needs to balance out income equality is simply Marxist warmed over. There really is no such thing as income inequality. Check out Thomas Sowell.