For a 21st Century Free Market Capitalism

Introduction.

Modern-day economics is besieged by a wave of anti-capitalist thought, but to overstate this will be ascribing to what Nigerian Author Ngozi Chimamanda calls the dangers of a single story. In modern times, capitalism has come to characterize inequality, deindustrialization, and globalization that has failed to deliver the benefits latent in market-based economic systems. A digital divide has emerged ever more strongly even as the precarity of jobs is endemic in most parts of the world. Meanwhile, weaker worker bargaining power has…