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SumZero hosted a co-branded research idea contest with Institutional Investor in November 2014. The event was hosted at the Bloomberg Tradebook headquarters in NYC. Over 250 members attended for live 4-minute presentations of stock pitches from 20 emerging managers, judged by a panel of professional investors. In March... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38099797 |
SumZero The allocator pool includes single- and multi-family offices, endowment funds, and fund of funds. Cap Intro operates a reverse solicitation model in which allocators reach out directly to funds. The Job Vault allows members to apply for buyside job opportunities submitted by firms on the site. All applicants mu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38099797 |
Industrial arbitration is a type of arbitration to prevent or settle labor disputes that may arise between an industrial employer and a union, union member, or union representative to prevent legal action taking place and finding less costly ways to settle disputes. Taking an issue to court or a breakdown of negotiatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38101365 |
United States Economic Census The is the U.S. federal government's official five-year measure of American business and the economy. It is conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, and response is required by law. Forms go out to nearly 4 million businesses, including large, medium and small companies representing all U.S. l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38122928 |
United States Economic Census As the marshals traveled from house to house counting the population, they asked questions on 25 broad categories of manufactured products and more than 200 kinds of goods. In successive decades the census came to include certain non-manufacturing businesses as well, such as retail stores,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38122928 |
United States Economic Census Its series of testimonials from the business, financial, professional, and governmental groups represented on the Committee led to the reinstatement of the Economic Census for 1954. The 1954 Economic Census was the first to fully integrate census taking for the various kinds of business. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38122928 |
United States Economic Census The final major expansion of the Economic Census took place in 1992, adding more transportation industries, plus finance, insurance, real estate, communications, and utilities, a group accounting for more than 20 percent of U.S. gross domestic product. The 1997 Economic Census was the firs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38122928 |
United States Economic Census In 1954, the confidentiality provisions were incorporated into the law (Title 13 of the United States Code) that specifies the frequency and scope of the Economic Census. The law also prescribes penalties for any disclosure by the Census Bureau, or for a respondent's false reporting or wil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38122928 |
Accelerated Return Note Accelerated Return Notes (ARN) were debt securities offered by Merrill Lynch from 2010 to 2012 and due in 2013 that were linked to gold spot prices. ARNs are senior, unsecured debt securities of Aktiebolaget Svensk Exportkredit (SEK), a public Swedish export credit corporation. The notes are not... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38126378 |
Benefit principle The benefit principle is a concept in the theory of taxation from public finance. It bases taxes to pay for public-goods expenditures on a politically-revealed willingness to pay for benefits received. The principle is sometimes likened to the function of prices in allocating private goods. In its use... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38149397 |
Benefit principle When information about marginal benefits is available only from the individuals themselves, they tend to under report their valuation for a particular good, this gives rise to the preference revelation problem. Each individual can lower his tax cost by under reporting his benefits derived from the pub... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38149397 |
Forgivable loan A forgivable loan, also called a soft second, is a form of loan in which its entirety, or a portion of it, can be forgiven or deferred for a period of time by the lender when certain conditions are met. It is more like a grant with conditions rather than a loan as in most cases the loan is forgiven if a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38162322 |
Social decision making is a concept for making business decisions. Studies find that half of all business decisions fail because of poor management and lack of buy-in from employees. Due to the population in many countries decreasing, companies are competing for talented employees, and one way they can attract young ta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38180529 |
Exchange of futures for swaps An exchange of futures for swaps (EFS) is a transaction negotiated privately in which a futures contract for a physical item is exchanged for a cash settled swap contract. It is similar to an EFP except that it involves a cash contract rather than a physicals contract. An EFS gives the mar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38193828 |
Exchange of futures for physicals In finance, an exchange of futures for physicals (EFP) is a transaction between two parties in which a futures contract on a commodity is exchanged for the actual physical good. This transaction involves a privately negotiated exchange of a futures position for a corresponding position... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38194022 |
Deposit Insurance Corporation of Japan The is the national deposit insurance authority of Japan. It was established in 1971 and is headquartered in Tokyo. Masanori Tanabe has been Chair of the organization since 2010. Due to 1990s' Japanese banking rescue, the company has preferred shares of 29 banks remain uncalled th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38211693 |
Fortune Global Forum is an annual conference held by "Fortune" magazine. The first conference was held in Singapore in 1995. The convenes the presidents, chairmen, CEOs of the world's top companies and also prestigious economists. The latest forum will take place in Guangzhou, China in Dec, 2017. The topic is "Openness... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38234309 |
Acqui-hiring or Acq-hiring is a neologism (a portmanteau of "acquisition" and "hiring"), or a talent acquisition, is the process of acquiring a company primarily to recruit its employees, rather than its products or services. Ben Zimmer traced the derivation of the phrase to a blog post in May 2005. Talent acquisitions... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38246493 |
Acqui-hiring Typically, a company that performs a talent acquisition does not show an interest in the products and services of the target, which results in them being discontinued upon the purchase (so that their staff will focus exclusively on incorporating their knowledge into their new employer's projects) or some t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38246493 |
Abenomics The term "Abenomics" is a portmanteau of "Abe" and "economics", and follows previous political neologisms for economic policies linked to specific leaders, such as Reaganomics, Clintonomics and Rogernomics. The Japanese government raised consumption tax rates from 3% to 5% in 1997, which worsened the recessio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38254885 |
Abenomics dollars from 2008 to 2009, a 27% reduction. By 2013, nominal GDP in Japan was at the same level as 1991 while the Nikkei 225 stock market index was at a third of its peak. Abe's economic policy is also related to the rise of China as an economic and political power. Abe's supporters drew explicit parallels be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38254885 |
Abenomics But Kikuo Iwata, the deputy governor of Bank of Japan, suggested that BoJ does not strictly aim for the 2 percent price target in two years. Iwata implied that BoJ would not loosen again its monetary policy, aimed at halting economic stagnation, soon after the increase in the sales tax in April 2014. Structur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38254885 |
Abenomics The yen became about 25% lower against the U.S. dollar in the second quarter of 2013 compared to the same period in 2012, with a highly loose monetary policy being followed. By May 2013, the stock market had risen by 55 percent, consumer spending had pushed first quarter economic growth up 3.5 percent annuall... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38254885 |
Abenomics BMI Research is viewing that Japanese economy fall in fiscal crisis before 2020 caused by its basic structural condition with high government debt, demographic decline, and loss of competitiveness of the key industry. So, ruling current political power will changed with their no ways. Anatole Kaletsky was an ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38254885 |
Abenomics Although the Japanese government expects the Japanese economy to recover after the economy goes into short recession, Summers suggested that Japan's rebound was overestimated. Koichi Hamada, a monetary adviser for Shinzo Abe, warned that the planned VAT hike could hurt Japan's economy which started to recover... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38254885 |
Abenomics Thus, restarting the reactors is still controversial: a nationwide poll showed that 76 percent either opposed nuclear power or wanted Japan to reduce the reliance on nuclear energy, while in some regions such as communities close to Sendai city, where nuclear power plants create jobs and relating subsidies ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38254885 |
Abenomics Thus Japan's tenacious deflation has been caused by the weak demand. Japan's nominal output has decreased by more than $1 trillion due to falling land prices and equity since 1990. Richard Koo said that in human history Japan was the only country suffering such a loss during peacetime. In a 2003 speech in Tok... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38254885 |
Abenomics Haruhiko Kuroda, the governor of Bank of Japan, said that raising Japan's consumption tax is a confidence-building measure and the measure could stabilize the social security which would strengthen Japan's economic growth. He stated that the stagnation due to the tax hike would be temporary, while he mentione... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38254885 |
Abenomics Lawrence Summers supported the view that the Japanese government should postpone the planned tax hike, suggesting that a steady economic growth should be more important for the country than fiscal discipline. He says that if its economic growth accelerates, the world-third-largest economy can tame its governm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38254885 |
Abenomics The International Monetary Fund characterized the program as "a unique opportunity to end decades-long deflation and sluggish growth and reverse the rise of public debt," but argued that "all three arrows need to be launched for the policies to succeed. Uncertainty about the ambition of fiscal and structural ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38254885 |
Abenomics In addition, there is rising skepticism regarding Abenomics, pointing out that the policy is too focussed on demand rather than on supply, such as the case of the Japanese government's push for generic medicines within its Universal Healthcare System without actually addressing the root causes. One of the fun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38254885 |
Abenomics Goldman Sachs chief economist Naohiko Baba has criticized the infrastructure spending component of Abenomics, arguing that the Japanese construction industry is inefficient and short of workers. In January 2013, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that the German people believed that central banks should not... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38254885 |
Abenomics Joseph Stiglitz suggests that even if tax cuts for the rich are done in US or UK, big firms just try to use them for their personal gains, not for raising wages of their employees. IMF affirmed that Japan's nominal GDP contracted by $1.8 trillion during 2012–2015 while real GDP contracted at an annual rate of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38254885 |
Abenomics Amari expressed confidence that the effect of the consumption tax hike began to wear off and the economy would recover later in 2014. Kyohei Morita and Yuichiro Nagai said that they believed that Japan's real GDP would return to growth exceeding potential, mentioning economic indicators such as public works a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38254885 |
Abenomics During the 1996-1999 period, the consumption tax was raised from 3 to 5 per cent, and during the 2013-2015 period, the same tax was raised from 5% to 8%. For the 1996-1999 period, the GDP of the first quarter of 1996 is set 100. For the 2013-2015 period, that of Q1 of 2013 is 100. The interval of the horizont... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38254885 |
Abenomics As external demand on Japan's goods declines, Japan's export fell 2.7 percent in May 2014 from a year ago. But its imports fell by 3.6 percent from a year ago as well, which narrowed Japan's trade deficit by 8.3 percent. The Japan trade deficit with other countries was over 1 trillion yen in April 2014, and i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38254885 |
Abenomics In the early October 2014, the IMF revised its 2014 global growth forecast downwards from 3.4 percent to 3.3 percent, although many central banks continued to provide liquidity to the world financial market. Weaker expansions in Japan, Latin America and Europe worsened the outlook for the world economy. In Oc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38254885 |
Abenomics The consumption tax hike from 5 to 8 per cent brought about the self-induced recession in 2014, which discouraged Japanese consumers from spending and gave them a signal of further austerity. The tax hike seemed to start permanently damaging the Japanese economy. Japan's GDP contracted by 0.8 per cent in annu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38254885 |
Ameer Ali (academic) Ameer Ali is the former President of the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils, an umbrella group for various Islamic groups or councils in Australia. In 2006, he was the chairman of the Australian Muslim Community Reference Group, which was an advisory body to the federal government from mid-2... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38285688 |
2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years 2052 – A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years is a 2012 book describing trends in global development. It is written by Jørgen Randers and is a follow-up to "The Limits to Growth", which in 1972 was the first worldwide report by the Club of Rome. It differs in three w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38326749 |
2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years Energy efficiency will continue to increase. Energy demand is expected to rise, but not indefinitely. CO2 emissions from energy consumption will peak in 2030. The average global temperature will rise by more than two degrees, causing serious problems. The race for natura... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38326749 |
2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years In short words he states: Concretely, in order to create a better world for our grandchildren, we should: But most importantly, the coming crisis should be used to develop new goals for modern society. To remind us all that the purpose of society is to increase a total l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38326749 |
Conflict economics is a branch of economics that puts the allocation of resources by means of violent fighting, i.e. conflict, into economic models. In traditional economics, appropriation is a non-violent process that is guaranteed by perfect property rights and their costless enforcement. sheds a different light on a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38337332 |
Conflict economics if he uses one unit of the resource he will gain more butter than his opponent would, he will receive a relatively lower expected pay-off. This is due to the fact that each player will then exploit his or her comparative advantage, with the more productive player producing more butter and the less pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38337332 |
Conflict economics Defeating your opponent in the present will secure the resource for you in the future (opponent is eliminated), thus not having to share it in a settlement. Conflict might not occur between two agents only, but a number of agents can be involved in hostilities. Individuals and parties have been repea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38337332 |
Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress The (CMEPSP), generally referred to as the Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi Commission after the surnames of its leaders, is a commission of inquiry created by the French Government in 2008. The inquiry examined how the wealth and social progress of a natio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38361970 |
Asia Cosmopolitan Awards is an international award established by Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) in the context of commemoration of the 1300-year anniversary in 2010 of Heijo-kyo (ancient capital of Japan located in present-day Nara) as the last destination of the ancient Silk Road and one o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38391679 |
Global Health Action is a peer-reviewed open access healthcare journal published by Taylor & Francis in partnership with Umeå University. According to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal had a 2018 impact factor of 1.817. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38412529 |
Intelligent Governance for the 21st Century Intelligent Governance for the 21st Century: A Middle Way Between West and East is a book published in 2012 by the investor and philanthropist Nicolas Berggruen and the editor and writer Nathan Gardels. It argues that Western democracies have become stymied by populism and sh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38430757 |
Pre-mortem A pre-mortem, or premortem, is a managerial strategy in which a project team imagines that a project or organization has failed, and then works backward to determine what potentially could lead to the failure of the project or organization. The technique breaks possible groupthinking by facilitating a positi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38435554 |
Democratic socialism is a political philosophy supporting political democracy within a socially owned economy, with a particular emphasis on workers' self-management and democratic control of economic institutions within a market socialist economy or some form of a decentralised planned socialist economy. Some democrat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38443580 |
Democratic socialism is what most socialists understand by the concept of socialism. It may be a very broad or more limited concept, referring to all forms of socialism that are democratic and reject an authoritarian Marxist–Leninist state. can include libertarian socialism, market socialism, reformist socialism and re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38443580 |
Democratic socialism Some maintain this was the result of their type of reformism that caused them to administer the system according to capitalist logic while others saw it as a modern form of democratic liberal socialism theoretically fitting within market socialism, distinguishing it from classical socialism, especi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38443580 |
Democratic socialism British Labour Party politician Peter Hain classifies democratic socialism along with libertarian socialism as a form of anti-authoritarian socialism from below (using the concept popularised by American socialist activist Hal Draper) in contrast to authoritarian socialism and state socialism. For ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38443580 |
Democratic socialism The Socialist Party of Great Britain and the World Socialist Movement define "socialism" in its classical formulation as a "system of society based upon the common ownership and democratic control of the means and instruments for producing and distributing wealth by and in the interest of the commu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38443580 |
Democratic socialism While ultimately committed to instituting socialism, the DSA focuses the bulk of its political activities on reforms within capitalism, arguing: "As we are unlikely to see an immediate end to capitalism tomorrow, DSA fights for reforms today that will weaken the power of corporations and increase t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38443580 |
Democratic socialism Page, a reader in Democratic Socialism and Social Policy at the University of Birmingham, wrote about transformative democratic socialism to refer to the politics of Labour Party Prime Minister Clement Attlee and its government (a strong welfare state, fiscal redistribution and some degree of publi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38443580 |
Democratic socialism has been described as the form of social democracy prior to the displacement of Keynesianism by neoliberalism and monetarism which caused many social democratic parties to adopt the Third Way ideology, accepting capitalism as the current "status quo" and powers that be, redefining socialism in a wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38443580 |
Democratic socialism This tendency is invoked in an attempt to distinguish democratic socialism from Marxist–Leninist socialism as in Norman Thomas' "Democratic Socialism: A New Appraisal", Roy Hattersley's "Choose Freedom: The Future of Democratic Socialism", Malcolm Hamilton's "Democratic Socialism in Britain and Swe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38443580 |
Democratic socialism One difference is that modern social democrats tend to reject revolutionary means accepted by the more radical socialists. Another difference is that some social democrats are mainly concerned with practical reforms within capitalism, with socialism relegated to the indefinite future. Other democra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38443580 |
Democratic socialism This latest development contributed to the rise of politicians that represent a return to the post-war consensus social democracy such as Jeremy Corbyn in the United Kingdom and Bernie Sanders in the United States, who assumed the democratic socialist label to describe their rejection of centrist p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38443580 |
Democratic socialism With time, while social democrats continues to call and describe themselves as "democratic socialists" or simply "socialists", the meaning of "democratic socialism" and "social democracy" effectively reversed. "Democratic socialism" originally represented socialism achieved by democratic means and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38443580 |
Democratic socialism Democratic socialists, especially contemporary proponents of market socialism, have argued that rather than socialism itself, the major reason for the economic shortcomings of Soviet-type economies was their failure to create rules and operational criteria for the efficient operation of state enter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38443580 |
Democratic socialism Proponents present decentralized and participatory economic planning as an alternative to market socialism for a post-capitalist society. Some proponents of market socialism see it as an economic system compatible with the political ideology of democratic socialism. Advocates of market socialism su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38443580 |
Democratic socialism Although capitalism has been commonly conflated with the free market, there is a similar "laissez-faire" economic theory and system associated with socialism called left-wing laissez-faire to distinguish it from laissez-faire capitalism. One example of this democratic market socialist tendency is m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38443580 |
Democratic socialism Referred to as left-wing market anarchists or market-oriented left-libertarians, Proponents of this approach strongly affirm the classical liberal ideas of self-ownership and free markets while maintaining that taken to their logical conclusions these ideas support anti-capitalist, anti-corporatist... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38443580 |
Democratic socialism profits generated from a lack of perfect competition, must be reduced or eliminated as much as possible through free competition rather than free from regulation. David McNally, a professor at the University of Houston, has argued in the Marxist tradition that the logic of the market inherently pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38443580 |
Democratic socialism The most notable historical examples are the Paris Commune, the various soviet republics established in the post-World War I period, early Soviet Russia before the abolition of soviet councils by the Bolsheviks, Revolutionary Catalonia as noted by George Orwell and more recently Rojava in northern ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38443580 |
Democratic socialism According to Bevan, Britain had a socialist National Health Service which stood in opposition to the hedonism of Britain's capitalist society. Although the laws of capitalism still operated fully as in the rest of Europe and private enterprise dominated the economy, some political commentators clai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38443580 |
Democratic socialism These confusions and disputes are caused not only by the socialist definition, but by the capitalist definition as well. Christian democrats, social liberals, national and social conservatives tend to support social democratic policies and generally see capitalism compatible with a mixed economy wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38443580 |
Democratic socialism involves the entire population controlling the economy through some type of democratic system, with the idea that the means of production are owned and managed by the working class as a whole. The interrelationship between democracy and socialism extends far back into the socialist movement to "The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38443580 |
Democratic socialism While "socialism" is frequently used to describe socialist states and Soviet-style economies, especially in the United States due to the First and Second Red Scares, democratic socialists use "socialism" to refer to their own tendency that rejects the ideas of authoritarian socialism and state soci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38443580 |
Democratic socialism Finally, social democracy is generally classified as a form of democratic socialism. Social democracy is distinguished between (1) the early trend that supported revolutionary socialism, mainly related to Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and other notable social democratic politicians and orthodox Ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38443580 |
Democratic socialism Owen's followers stressed both participatory democracy and economic socialisation in the form of consumer co-operatives, credit unions and mutual aid societies. In the case of the Owenites, they also overlapped with a number of other working-class and labour movements such as the Chartists in the U... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38443580 |
Democratic socialism The Chartists gathered significant numbers around the People's Charter of 1838 which demanded the extension of suffrage to all male adults. Leaders in the movement also called for a more equitable distribution of income and better living conditions for the working classes. The very first trade unio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38443580 |
Democratic socialism The British political philosopher John Stuart Mill also came to advocate a form of economic socialism within a liberal context. In later editions of "Principles of Political Economy" (1848), Mill would argue that "as far as economic theory was concerned, there is nothing in principle in economic th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38443580 |
Democratic socialism The society laid many of the foundations of the Labour Party and subsequently affected the policies of states emerging from the decolonisation of the British Empire, most notably India and Singapore. Originally, the Fabian Society was committed to the establishment of a socialist economy, alongside... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38443580 |
Democratic socialism Not only did they effectively present themselves as champions of minority rights; they also provoked the German Marxists into demonstrating a dictatorial intolerance which was a factor in preventing the British labour movement from following the Marxist direction indicated by such leaders as H. M. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38443580 |
Democratic socialism In his introduction to the 1895 edition of Karl Marx's "The Class Struggles in France", Engels attempted to resolve the division between gradualist reformist and revolutionary socialists in the Marxist movement by declaring that he was in favour of short-term tactics of electoral politics that incl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38443580 |
Democratic socialism Bernstein interpreted this as indicating that Engels was moving towards accepting parliamentary reformist and gradualist stances, but he ignored that Engels' stances were tactical as a response to the particular circumstances at that time and that Engels was still committed to revolutionary sociali... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38443580 |
Democratic socialism The Socialist Party of America was also known at various times in its long history as the Socialist Party of the United States (as early as the 1910s) and Socialist Party USA (as early as 1935, most common in the 1960s), but the official party name remained Socialist Party of America. Eugene V. Deb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38443580 |
Democratic socialism By 1917, the patriotism of World War I changed into political radicalism in most of Europe, the United States and Australia. Other socialist parties from around the world who were beginning to gain importance in their national politics in the early 20th century included the Italian Socialist Party,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38443580 |
Democratic socialism Soon after the October Revolution, the Constituent Assembly elected Socialist-Revolutionary leader Victor Chernov as President of a Russian Republic, but it rejected the Bolshevik proposal that endorsed the Soviet decrees on land, peace and workers' control and acknowledged the power of the Soviets... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38443580 |
Democratic socialism In 1922, the 4th World Congress of the Communist International took up the policy of the united front, urging communists to work with rank and file social democrats while remaining critical of their party leaders, whom they criticised for betraying the working class by supporting the war efforts of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38443580 |
Democratic socialism In contrast, the social democrats of the Second International were seen as insufficiently socialist and had been compromised by their support for World War I. The key movements within the IWUSP were the Austromarxists and the British Independent Labour Party while the main forces in the London Bure... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38443580 |
Democratic socialism British Petroleum was officially nationalised in 1951. In 1956, Anthony Crosland stated that at least 25% of British industry was nationalised and that public employees, including those in nationalised industries, constituted a similar proportion of the country's total workforce. The 1964–1970 and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38443580 |
Democratic socialism From 1945 until 1962, the Norwegian Labour Party held an absolute majority in the parliament led by Einar Gerhardsen, who served Prime Minister for seventeen years. The Danish Social Democrats governed Denmark for most of the 20th century and since the 1920s and through the 1940s and the 1970s a la... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38443580 |
Democratic socialism This economic model allowed capitalists who owned very productive and efficient firms to retain excess profits at the expense of the firm's workers, exacerbating income inequality and causing workers in these firms to agitate for a better share of the profits in the 1970s. Women working in the stat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38443580 |
Democratic socialism Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's denunciation of the excesses of Stalin's regime during the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union that same year as well as the revolt in Hungary produced ideological fractures and disagreements within the communist and socialist parties of Wester... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38443580 |
Democratic socialism Thompson, influential historians and members of the Communist Party Historians Group, culminated in a loss of thousands of party members as events unfolded in Hungary. Peter Fryer, correspondent for the CPGB newspaper "The Daily Worker", reported accurately on the violent suppression of the uprisin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38443580 |
Democratic socialism Embracing a new ideology called Third World socialism, countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America often nationalised industries held by foreign owners. In addition, the New Left, a movement composed of activists, educators, agitators and others who sought to implement a broad range of social refor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38443580 |
Democratic socialism These protests marked a turning point for the civil rights movement in the United States which produced revolutionary movements like the Black Panther Party. The prominent civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. organised the Poor People's Campaign to address issues of economic and social justic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38443580 |
Democratic socialism In Eastern Europe, there were widespread protests that escalated particularly in the Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia. In response, the Soviet Union occupied Czechoslovakia, but the occupation was denounced by the Italian and French communist parties as well as the Communist Party of Finland. In Lat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38443580 |
Democratic socialism Some communist parties with strong popular support, notably the Italian Communist Party and the Communist Party of Spain, enthusiastically adopted Eurocommunism and the Communist Party of Finland was dominated by Eurocommunists. In the late 1970s and in the 1980s, the Socialist International had ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38443580 |
Democratic socialism As a result of the 1981 legislative election, PASOK became Greece's first centre-left party to win a majority in the Hellenic Parliament and the party would later pass several important economic and social reforms that would reshape Greece in the years ahead until its collapse in the 2010s. In the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38443580 |
Democratic socialism ] that will weaken the power of corporations and increase the power of working people". During the 1980s, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev intended to move the Soviet Union towards democratic socialism in the form of Nordic-style social democracy, calling it a "socialist beacon for all mankind". Pri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38443580 |
Democratic socialism Many social democratic parties, particularly after the Cold War, adopted neoliberal economic policies, including austerity, deregulation, financialisation, free trade, privatisation and welfare reforms such as workfare, experiencing a drastic decline in the 2010s after their successes in the 1990s ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38443580 |
Democratic socialism In 1989, the Socialist International adopted a new Declaration of Principles at its 18th congress in Stockholm, Sweden, stating: "is an international movement for freedom, social justice, and solidarity. Its goal is to achieve a peaceful world where these basic values can be enhanced and where each... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38443580 |
Democratic socialism In 1995, the Labour Party re-defined its position on socialism by re-wording Clause IV of their Constitution, effectively removing all references to public, direct worker or municipal ownership of the means of production and now stating: "The Labour Party is a democratic socialist party. It believe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38443580 |
Democratic socialism Despite the long history of overlap between the two, with social democracy considered a form of democratic or parliamentary socialism and social democrats calling themselves democratic socialists, this is considered a misnomer in the United States. One issue is that social democracy is equated with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38443580 |
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