[Tulisan Francis Fukuyama ini dimuat pada Newsweek Edisi 4 Oktober 2008, sebagai respon terhadap asal mula krisis ekonomi global yang melanda negara-negara kapitalis. Edisi lengkapnya klik disini]
Along with some of Wall Street's most storied firms, a certain vision of capitalism has collapsed. How we restore faith in our brand.
The implosion of America's most storied investment banks. The vanishing of more than a trillion dollars in stock-market wealth in a day. A $700 billion tab for U.S. taxpayers. The scale of the Wall Street crackup could scarcely be more gargantuan. Yet even as Americans ask why they're having to pay such mind-bending sums to prevent the economy from imploding, few are discussing a more intangible, yet potentially much greater cost to the United States—the damage that the financial meltdown is doing to America's "brand."



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