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"What Kind of Capitalism do ‘We' want?"

Introduction
First of all, I will provide a quick overview of the evolution of capitalism since the Great Depression, which I believe is necessary in order to understand the capitalism of today and some of the problems to it. Then I will analyze four different problematic areas of free-market capitalism in the US compared with the Scandinavian government-managed capitalism. I will then discuss what kind of capitalism we want: We being different interest groups, such as the shareholders, the C.E.O.'s, the average worker and the poor. Finally I will discuss what values might be at stake in capitalism.

The evolution of capitalism
In the U.S., the 1930s Great Depression threatened to destroy the capitalism that had been evolving for the past 400 years and this led to abandoning the laissez-faire capitalism and instead embracing the New Deal concept of government-managed capitalism in order to control money supply and government......

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