Weekly Topic

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Hi all! Guess who's back. :) Okay, it seems Family/Morality week rather went under the sign of discussions on race and racism (and some history towards the end), and meanwhile here's what you chose to be the subject for the next fortnight (August 9 - August 22):

"Capitalism, Monetarism and the Free Market"

As usual, here are some basic points which could be included in that context:

- History of capitalism & money
- Mercantilism & consumerism
- Major socio-economic theories, works & thinkers
- Marxism, Maoism & communism, planned economy
- The industrial revolution and technology development
- Business & the division of labor
- Market structures & financial institutions
- The fractional banking system
- Economic intervention
- Controlled & regulated markets
- Spontaneous order or the 'invisible hand'
- Objectivism (Ayn Rand)
- Competition regulation & legislation
- Consumer protection
- Externalities
- Economic freedom
- Free-market anarchism, environmentalism, free-market healthcare
- Game theory
- Transparency of the market
- Underground economy
- Private enterprise
- Private property
- Keynesianism & neoliberalism
- Trademarks & intellectual property
- The Austrian school
- Globalization & the markets
- Laissez-faire economy
- Financial institutions: state & otherwise
- The corporations
- State monopoly
- The boom & bust cycle
- The global financial crisis 2008~
- Oligarchy, kleptocracy & corruption
- Criticism of capitalism & anti-capitalism

And here's the poll for the next 2 weeks (August 23 - September 5).

Poll Weekly topic
Feel free to suggest more.