Innovation and capitalism: opportunities for improvement in society and in business

Authors

  • Maria Ricart Bou

Keywords:

Capitalism, Technology, Democracy, Inequality, Value, Automation, Innovation, Creative destruction, Corporate social responsibility, Technological revolutions

Abstract

There are many reasons to be worried and become skeptical about the effects the system we are living in is having on humanity and the environment, yet we have accessible contemporary and modern studies on the capitalist system that can give us tools to redefine regulations and concepts with a focus on bettering those crude realities. In order to understand some of the actual core issues and its possible solutions,

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Published

2021-03-29

Issue

No. 4 (2021): Ciència, tecnologia i futur

Section

MONOGRAFIA

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