He wrote two books on the subject, "Black Capitalism: Strategy for Business in the Ghetto" (Atheneum, 1969) and "The Black Power Imperative: Racial Inequality and the Politics of Nonviolence" (Faulkner, 1984).
The Shock Doctrine is a book by Naomi Klein that describes a "disaster capitalism" strategy used by wealthy and powerful people to take advantage of crises -- even causing crises -- to herd people into accepting "solutions" to those crises that really just enrich the 1percentt at the expense of the rest of us.
Thirty years after the Vietnam War, she sees the regime gaining acceptance abroad by opening up its economy to foreigners under a communism-with-capitalism strategy.
Companies there are subsidized by the government, often getting free land and loans they never have to pay back, according to Usha Haley, author of the book "Chinese Industry: State Capitalism, Business Strategy and Trade Policy", published in April by Oxford University Press.
They are the authors of Subsidies to Chinese Industry: State Capitalism, Business Strategy, and Trade Policy (Oxford University Press).
The authors' forthcoming book on the subject is Subsidies to Chinese Industry: State Capitalism, Business Strategy and Trade Policy (Oxford University Press).
Condensed Capitalism reveals these strategies and their consequences through a narrative that shows the mark of great economic and social forces on the very human stories of the people who spent their lives filling those familiar red-and-white cans.
As Michael Porter said when addressing business leaders in New York recently: "The old models of corporate strategy and capitalism are dead.
Lord Palmerston's "gunboat diplomacy" in defense of the opium trade may have been an especially bald version of state capitalism, but the basic strategy of enlisting state power in pursuit of commercial advantage, and vice versa, has been anything but the exception.
The causes and projects that benefit from values- and faith-based investing might often sound liberal -- sustainable development in Latin American "biosphere reserves," to cite one Oikocredit project, or women merchant cooperatives in Africa -- but the strategy is capitalism through and through, the art and science of doing well and doing good with one fell private-finance swoop.
Lumumba proposed a "critical break with capitalism" through three concurrent strategies: assemblies to elevate ordinary people's voices, an independent political party accountable to the assemblies, and publicly financed economic development through local cooperatives.
