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Tuesday, July 29, 2025
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Topic: Capitalism

Off The Cuff with Jaithirth Rao & Gurcharan Das

In this edition of #ThePrintOTC, entrepreneur and writer Jaithirth Rao speaks to Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta and commentator Gurcharan Das about Rao's new book, 'Economist...

We are in an age of rapid technological progress. But many are not ‘progressing’

Technology has paved the way for economic transformation and improved quality of life. But 'creative destruction' is widening the inequality gap.

SubscriberWrites: Free market capitalism leads to greater economic democracy than socialism

Capitalism provides various opportunities to several people while economic power is consolidated in few hands in socialism, writes Hindol Roy.

SubscriberWrites: In praise of making money & why it’s a good idea to let a thousand billionaires bloom

Shaunak Desai defends the super rich from the charge that their creation of wealth also creates greater inequality in society.

Infinite exponential economic growth is a myth, says Sam Pitroda

In ‘Redesign the World’, Sam Pitroda argues that hyperconnectivity and Covid-19 have offered a unique opportunity to redesign the world to meet future challenges.

Why we should cut capitalism some slack after the Covid pressure cooker

A greater tolerance of intentional slack is being built into everything — from how Toyota Motor Corp. manages its inventory and Amazon.com Inc. organises its deliveries.

Why economist Milton Friedman wasn’t wrong about the corporate mantra — ‘make as much profit’

Shareholder capitalism is widely misunderstood. It does not argue for businesses to pursue maximum profit in the absence of any constraints, legal or ethical.

Not Covid, it’s affluence that is the world’s biggest threat today

Scientists from Australia, Switzerland and the United Kingdom have warned that tackling overconsumption has to become the world’s biggest priority.

Capitalism needs the ‘Great Reset’ button. Covid-19 is showing the way

We can emerge from this crisis a better world, if we act quickly and jointly, writes founder of World Economic Forum Professor Klaus Schwab.

Davos seeks a better and more sustainable world but who’s going to pay for it

The scale of problems contemplated at Davos will require drastic interventions and costs for these will have to be borne by shareholders, corporates & pension funds.

On Camera

From ‘Jai Kisan’ to CVC, Shastri walked the talk. But corruption proved harder to root out

Set up by Lal bahadur Shastri, the Santhanam Committee's key concern was that corruption, once limited to the lower rungs of the bureaucracy, had now infected the All India Services and political leadership.

Govt’s earlier FDI limit of 74% in insurance sector has remained underutilised, Parliament told

In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.

India wanted a stable, prosperous Pakistan but our peace efforts were mistaken for weakness: Rajnath

Modi government had also made numerous efforts to establish peace with Pakistan but has now adopted a different path, militarily, to establish peace, adds defence minister.

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.