O kapitalizmu, Evropi in svetovni banki (On Capitalism, Europe, and the World Bank )
At a shareholder’s meeting of Allianz AG, major shareholder Hans-Martin Buhlmannn expressed the view that there is only one limit to the increase of the dividend: “The inferiors must not be bled so much that they can no longer consume. They must survive as consumers.” Is this the guiding principle of our economic system? And if so, is there any substance to the notion of a “social market economy”?
NC: How does the social market system differ? There’s no principle of economics or anything else that says – first of all that even says that corporations should exist, but granting that they exist – that they should be concerned only with the maximization of gain for their stockholders instead of what’s sometimes called “stakeholders”: the community, the work force, everything else. As far as economics is concerned, it’s just another way of running things. And the European system to an extent has stakeholder interest.
On Capitalism, Europe, and the World Bank
Posted at 02:57PM jun 25, 2007 by Boris in Politika |