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Africa can remind the world of the capitalist way

A decade ago, the end of fuel subsidies in Nigeria could have led to political crisis. Now Nigerians just want to work, writes Dambisa Moyo

Forget Fred and focus on the real banking scandal

Capitalism works – and works far better than any other system – because the discipline of the marketplace keeps greed, folly and incompetence in check, writes Nigel Lawson

Our ignorance will yield more crises in capitalism

The idea that Chinese capitalism provides a blueprint for the rest of the world economy is an absurd exaggeration, writes Kenneth Rogoff

Free-market evangelists face a lonely fate

A global consensus is likely to emerge that there should be a greater role for the state in the marketplace, writes David Rothkopf

Forget the big bonuses; a pay squeeze is coming

By 2017 bank pay could look very different from how it appeared in the boom. And capitalism will look all the better for it, writes Gillian Tett

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EDITORIAL COMMENT

Ruling capitalism

The excesses that drove the bubble and the breakdown that followed happened because leaders forgot that free enterprise requires rules

Undermining the case for capitalism

Public confidence in shareholder capitalism can only be restored if owners recognise their responsibility

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