Yet it is a distorted, patriarchal capitalism, characterised by a dominant state, kleptocratic monopolies, heavy regulation and massive subsidies.
What they do gain is a distorted, pessimistic perspective on their lives.
Profits and losses are the economic signals that direct the use of scarce capital, a process that is distorted when government picks the winners and losers.
His military biography of Custer brings balance to a life that is often distorted by the preconceptions of the historian.
The book is a polemic, and its main target is what Mr de Waal takes to be a distorted idea of human life as relentlessly selfish and ruthlessly competitive.
This has created a global system that is deeply distorted, where those holding financial assets like stocks and bonds have been rewarded, but where the average American, for example, lives in a world of labor uncertainty and recession-level unemployment rates.
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The result is that we get a terribly distorted picture of modern life, and of modern childhood in particular.
Her voice, by turns plaintive and coaxing, is distorted to resemble a man's.
Since the exchange rate is a binary issue, not distorted by an overhang of global liquidity, we take euro-dollar stability and falling gold as rejecting the idea of a Fed rate cut.
" To Dr. Manheimer, the medical "system" isn't one at all but is instead "a congeries of interest groups that has carved up and distorted how health care is paid for and delivered into Balkanized protected feudal states enlarged and serviced by armies of lawyers and K Street lobbyists and willing-and-able politicians.
The second is a glimpse, no matter how distorted, of the world as people perceive it.
They do, however, agree that Huawei's opacity is a microcosm of China's distorted economy.
So that's how the piece opens, and what you've got is a picture that's already distorted from the very beginning.
Think about it in the context of the age-old game of Telephone where you whisper a sentence around the table until it is distorted into something indistinguishable.
There is a consensus that the cluelessness of journalists like Kristof has not just wildly distorted the actual scientific evidence on BPA, it is contributing to a more general and broader assault on scientific integrity.
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Venezuelan politics is distorted most of all by a pervasive mood of threat.
If the loss estimates are too high or too low, you can get a very distorted picture of how the bank is truly performing.
Despite the facts, growers are constantly under attack by groups who have a wide variety of agendas and information is grossly distorted to manipulate the public.
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After all, whether acknowledged as such or not, the clear implication is that a single meeting -- however distorted its public relations impact in South Korea and elsewhere in the West -- has actually precipitated a significant, to say nothing of a permanent, change in North Korea's intentions (not to mention its formidable military capabilities).
Anything is possible, but a more likely explanation for the anomalous September and October figures is that they were distorted by fictitious transactions.
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The market became distorted, and that distortion is a bubble that will continue here until supply and demand comes into sync.
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Because Egypt's peculiar form of democracy usually produces a very low voter turnout and distorted results, it is hard to say how many Egyptians share the Brothers' outrage.
In general, the Israeli media responded to Beck's visit to Israel either as a non-event, or they distorted who Beck is and what he is trying to do.
Now, in their distorted and militant view, a can of Coke is the new AR-15.
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Over time, the problem may right itself as the experience of South Korea, where a sex ratio that was highly distorted in the 1990s and is now approaching normality, suggests.
Even where the case for government is most plausible, the political process will give us a distorted version of what we really want.
Adds psychologist Susan Zafarlotfi, a sleep disorder specialist at Hackensack University Medical Center: "This study shows that CBT as compared to pharmacotherapy works much better ... pharmacotherapy is only a crutch, " while CBT aims to fix the distorted behavior and thought patterns that cause the disorder.
Other critics of Verheijen argue that his almost injury-free record is distorted by primarily working with international teams and also as a consultant.
Since the rise of the modern nation-state, classical economists have had to reason further from the Law of One Price, pointing out that the Law of One Price is a law of market-based economies and that the law becomes distorted as the market become distorted by forcible interruptions in transnational exchanges.
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