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Capitalism is coming to an end says economist Rifkin
30 April 2014 Last updated at 14:00 BST
Economist and author Jeremy Rifkin has told BBC HARDtalk why he believes the internet and digital goods are contributing to the demise of capitalism.
The collaborative commons, Mr Rifkin said, is the new economic system based on sharing which is "entering the world's stage".
Watch more clips at HARDtalk's website
You can see the full interview on BBC World News at 14:30 and 20:30 GMT on Wednesday 30 April and on the BBC News Channel on Thursday 1 May at 00:30 and 04:30 BST.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/411766/capitalism-needs-a-new-ideology
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=7508cd0c-c25f-43ec-bb4a-dfcbeff0286e
National Post ·
The end of capitalism is near. Nay, it has arrived, officially proclaimed yesterday by the world's leading media panjandrum of economic doom. In a staggeringly glib, sensationalistic and over-the-top 2,000-word rantorama, Financial Times' economics columnist Martin Wolf yesterday launched what the Times calls its major new series, The Future of Capitalism.
That's the official title, which unfortunately has nothing to do with the actual content of the series. It's really about the Future of Big Government, and why we need Big Government and why it's inevitable because there's no alternative. The pink pages of the FT have been waging war on free markets for decades, pandering instead to its global readership among hundreds of thousands of bureaucrats in government offices, the IMF, the OECD and other breeding grounds of global statism.
Nothing warms the bottoms of this crowd of power-seekers and regulators-in-waiting more than a good financial crisis. The FT captured the joy of disaster in its description of the Future of Capitalism series: "The credit crunch has destroyed faith in the free
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-radio-and-tv-27222524
Capitalism is coming to an end says economist Rifkin
30 April 2014 Last updated at 14:00 BST
Economist and author Jeremy Rifkin has told BBC HARDtalk why he believes the internet and digital goods are contributing to the demise of capitalism.
The collaborative commons, Mr Rifkin said, is the new economic system based on sharing which is "entering the world's stage".
Watch more clips at HARDtalk's website
You can see the full interview on BBC World News at 14:30 and 20:30 GMT on Wednesday 30 April and on the BBC News Channel on Thursday 1 May at 00:30 and 04:30 BST.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/411766/capitalism-needs-a-new-ideology
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=7508cd0c-c25f-43ec-bb4a-dfcbeff0286e
National Post ·
The end of capitalism is near. Nay, it has arrived, officially proclaimed yesterday by the world's leading media panjandrum of economic doom. In a staggeringly glib, sensationalistic and over-the-top 2,000-word rantorama, Financial Times' economics columnist Martin Wolf yesterday launched what the Times calls its major new series, The Future of Capitalism.
That's the official title, which unfortunately has nothing to do with the actual content of the series. It's really about the Future of Big Government, and why we need Big Government and why it's inevitable because there's no alternative. The pink pages of the FT have been waging war on free markets for decades, pandering instead to its global readership among hundreds of thousands of bureaucrats in government offices, the IMF, the OECD and other breeding grounds of global statism.
Nothing warms the bottoms of this crowd of power-seekers and regulators-in-waiting more than a good financial crisis. The FT captured the joy of disaster in its description of the Future of Capitalism series: "The credit crunch has destroyed faith in the free