Sentence examples for concentration of capital from inspiring English sources

Block et al. (2011) assert that Growing Power shares many of the same principles as peasant-driven food sovereignty movements: 'The focus of residents on the poor retail food choices within their communities, and the issues of lack of control and concentration of capital that those within the food sovereignty movement concentrate on are not that far apart.

This has resulted in the immense concentration of capital we see today.

Tax breaks that encourage the concentration of capital, such as the carried-interest loophole, which dramatically lowers private-equity partners' bills, should be eliminated.

In an essay for the Times (written in 1984, of all years!), the novelist Thomas Pynchon suggested that Luddites were acting in response to two stimuli: "One was the concentration of capital that each machine represented, and the other was the ability of each machine to put a certain number of humans out of work to be 'worth' that many human souls".

While that cooperation is credited with having fueled the country's rapid economic growth and its transformation from a primarily agrarian economy to a technology giant in the late 20th century, critics say it also led to monopolies and the concentration of capital in the hands of a few economic giants.

Responding to critics of Marx who held that the concentration of capital had not occurred in the way Marx expected, Hilferding's Finance Capital (1910) pointed to the role of banking and finance, arguing that the banks' increasing influence over industry led to monopoly and cartels and through them to economic imperialism and war.

John Bezís-Selfargueses that the iron industry, with its early concentrations of capital and labor, reveals the close links between industrial and political revolution.

Mr Piketty's book does an able job showing that high levels and concentrations of capital have not been a necessary or sufficient condition for rapid growth in the past, though they have often sowed the seeds for political backlash that is detrimental to long-run growth.

They also require centralized, command and control systems, and massive concentrations of capital to move them from underground to end users.

They also require centralized, top-down command and control systems and massive concentrations of capital to move them from underground to the end users.

The first Great Depression led to totalitarian dictatorships, war to consolidate power, and concentrations of capital in the hands of a financial elite.