首页
登录
职称英语
Is 20th-century capitalism failing 21st-century society? Members of the glob
Is 20th-century capitalism failing 21st-century society? Members of the glob
游客
2023-09-01
45
管理
问题
Is 20th-century capitalism failing 21st-century society? Members of the global elite debated that unusual question at the annual World Economic Forum.
It is encouraging that more than three years since the global financial crisis, a belated (迟到的) process of soul-searching has begun in search of the right lessons to learn from it.
There is a great difference, however, between being willing to talk about an issue and being ready to act.
It is a difference between those who still believe that all governments can do is get out of the way and those who believe there is a real role for governments in first reviving our economies, and then setting the right rules for future success.
If we learned anything from the 1930s, it was that governments cannot shrug their shoulders and watch as their own people are being laid off.
Nor should we forget the causes of the current growth and debt crisis as we seek to put our economies on a more sustainable footing.
Both the United States and Britain suffered because their economies were overly reliant on the financial sector’s artificial profits; living standards for the many worsened while the economic rewards went to the top 1 percent; a capitalist model encouraged short-term decision-making oriented toward quarterly profits rather than long-term health; and interest groups like giant banks were deemed too big to fail or too powerful to challenge.
We need to recognize that the trickle-down promise (benefits given to the rich will eventually be passed on to the poor) of conservative theorists has turned into a gravity-defying reality in which wealth has flowed upward disproportionately and, too often, undeservedly. To address the problem requires fresh thinking from governments about how people train for their working lives and what a living wage should be.
Governments can set better - not necessarily more - rules to encourage productive businesses that make and sell real products and services. We need rules that discourage the predatory (掠夺的) behavior of those seeking the fast buck through hostile takeovers and asset-stripping that do not have the interests of the shareholders, the employees or the economy at heart.
And governments must remember they are elected to serve the people, not the powerful lobbies who can pay for access or influence. Too often the real enemies of market capitalism are some of the leading beneficiaries of the current model, which favors big monopolies and consumer exploitation.
I believe that changing the rules of capitalism will require a change in what citizens expect and ask of politics. The question is not so much whether 20th-century capitalism is failing 21st-century society but whether politics can rise to the challenge of changing a flawed economic model. [br] What is one of the factors contributing to the recent financial crisis in the United States and Britain?
选项
A、Their business giants’ neglect of attending to long-term planning.
B、Their governments’ unnecessary intervention in economic affairs.
C、Their governments failing to provide assistance for the poor and needy.
D、Their economies relying heavily on the operations of the financial sector.
答案
D
解析
由题干的United States and Britain可定位到第7段第1句,即可找到选项C的同义表达。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/2976712.html
相关试题推荐
TheNextSocietyTheneweconomymayor
TheNextSocietyTheneweconomymayor
TheNextSocietyTheneweconomymayor
TheNextSocietyTheneweconomymayor
TheNextSocietyTheneweconomymayor
TheNextSocietyTheneweconomymayor
TheNextSocietyTheneweconomymayor
Theplaceofthechildinsocietyhasvariedforthousandsofyearsandhas
Theplaceofthechildinsocietyhasvariedforthousandsofyearsandhas
Theplaceofthechildinsocietyhasvariedforthousandsofyearsandhas
随机试题
"Whereismeuniversity?"isaquestionmanyvisitorstoCambridgeask,but
Completethesentencesbelow.WriteONEWORDONLYforeachanswer.Footballint
市政公用工程施工现场管理人员和关键岗位实名制管理的内容有()。A.个人身份
某商场建筑设计任务书中要求设无框玻璃外门。应采用下列哪种玻璃?( )A.厚度不
下列哪项描述有误()A.器质性聋又分为传导性聋、感音神经性聋和混合性
分布于上肢内侧后缘的经脉是A、手太阴肺经 B、手阳明大肠经 C、手厥阴心包经
下列不是学前语言教育的总目标的是()。A.使幼儿养成强壮的身体 B.能认识简
广谱抗惊厥药是A:卡马西平 B:苯妥英钠 C:丙戊酸钠 D:盐酸普鲁卡因
在胸骨右缘第2、3肋间闻及响亮粗糙的收缩期吹风样杂音,最可能是()。A.二尖瓣
“少阴不足,阳明有余”,症见烦热干渴,头痛,牙痛,齿龈出血,舌红苔黄而干,或消渴
最新回复
(
0
)