Liberalism and Capitalism Today

Conclusion

Throughout this book, we have tried to show that capitalism is the socioeconomic system best suited to global application when it meets a certain number of complementary hypotheses, namely:

• – evolving in a growing world thanks to innovative companies that guarantee sustainable jobs, in which the benefits are more evenly distributed, knowing that perfect equality cannot be ensured by any system;
• – inspiring a sufficiently strong confidence in the future, which is an indispensable condition for encouraging long-term savings, the source of investments and the means to face one of the most important problems of the near future: the financing of pensions. This question is a typical example of the choice between individual responsibility and state control over a collective distribution system: what is the best procedure for ensuring this essential and increasingly expensive type of social protection?
• – encouraging the greatest possible transparency for all operations carried out;
• – reinstating a sense of individual responsibility;
• – offering humanity prospects for the future that are not only economic, but also cultural, cultural, scientific, etc.;
• – reinstating a sense of effort;
• – promoting the intellectual development of every individual through a quality education offered to everyone;
• – ensuring irreproachable human ethics, particularly in the financial field where embezzlement is most easily committed. Only international agreements that place all countries on an equal ...