Sentence examples for concentrations of capital from inspiring English sources
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, top-down command and control systems and massive concentrations of capital to move them from underground to the end users.
They also require centralized, command and control systems, and massive concentrations of capital to move them from underground to 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.
We need men and women who have far greater abilities and far broader appeal than I will ever have, but who have my kind of independence -- who will dare to declare that they are free of the old ways that have led us wrong, and who owe nothing to the traditional concentrations of capital and power that have subverted this nation's ideals.
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.
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".
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.
