¿Tiene Futuro el Capitalismo?
Edmund S. Phelps, profesor de la Universidad de Columbia y premio Nobel de economía en 2006, escribe sobre el futuro del capitalismo en Project Syndicate.
Perhaps the greatest accomplishment of capitalism was in transforming the workplace from one of routine, and thus boredom, into one of change, mental stimulus, challenge, problem solving, exploration, and sometimes discovery. True, the assembly line, a brain-numbing experience, was a feature of capitalism from the pin factor that Adam Smith wrote about in 1776 until Henry Ford’s giant plants in the 1920’s. But communist Russia and socialist Europe could not afford to do without assembly lines, either. And, thanks to productivity growth, an ever larger share of jobs lay outside factories as well as farms.
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