Capitalism

Around the start of the millennium, European social democracy seemed in fine fettle. Britain, France, Germany and Italy...

Finance and capitalism have acquired a bad name in recent years. Privatised enrichment at the cost of nationalised...

In the desert city of Tucson, Arizona, local entrepreneurs have gathered in the Pueblo Vida bar for a crash course in...

Kevin Roberts got it wrong. The chairman of advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi was forced to resign this week after...

Sir Philip Green. Don’t you just hate him? Isn’t he the completely unacceptable face of modern British capitalism? A...

From time to time politicians mean what they say. This seems to be the case with Theresa May, Britain’s new prime...

You can pick up a knighthood for just over £1m, judging from political donor records. It may cost Sir Philip Green,...

The verdict of two House of Commons select committees on the sale of BHS by its former owner Sir Philip Green last year...

Most of the largest 1,000 European companies have improved their efficient use of working capital over the past year,...

Donald Trump is confirmed as the Republican nominee for US president. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s president,...

Five centuries ago a Dominican friar called Girolamo Savonarola persuaded a group of his supporters to build a vast...

The finance industry presents a bewildering array of options for anyone looking to increase their savings, from “60-40”...

You might have the impression from recent “my-oh-my” reports that we are witnessing a decline in ethics at the top of...

The rules governing capitalist organisations, dating back to the mid-19th century, are fairly simple. In short, the...

In testimony to the US Federal Commission on Industrial Relations in 1915, Ida Tarbell, a journalist known for exposing...

Capitalism is failing Africa. A relatively small number of entrepreneurs have prospered on the continent in the past...

It is not every day you read a book about global finance by a banker who quotes Lenin approvingly on page two. But then...

It is hard to see an upside in the demise of British Home Stores, the octogenarian department store with more than...

Students of Marxist cultural theory looking for proof of the steely resilience of late capitalism should keep their...

Only in America. As Donald Trump bids for the Republican nomination for the White House, the rest of the world looks on...

Business leaders and stock market investors tend not, as a rule, to be staunch supporters of hardline communism. But...

In the opening contests of the 2016 race for the White House, Ted Cruz, a Republican candidate described as a...

We live in an age of shareholder capitalism, or so I like to think. One in which a large part of the population has a...

Cecil Rhodes, alas. Or so the governing body of Oriel College, Oxford, must feel as it confronts demands from the...

A senior cardinal chosen by Pope Francis to manage the Vatican’s finances has launched into a spirited defence of free...

When Margaret Thatcher took power in Britain in 1979, one of her first decisions as prime minister was to scrap capital...

Marxist of the right Douglass C. North, who won the 1993 Nobel memorial prize for economic science, died this week. One...

In 2012, the blog Gizmodo acquired a copy of Apple’s Genius training manual. There was a section on teaching...

The wealthy burghers of Affluentia saw it as a victory for their way of life when their poverty-stricken neighbour, the...

A giant new mural embellishes the interior of one of Bolivia’s finance ministry buildings; one that would have made the...

What exactly does shareholder capitalism expect of the people who run companies and who invest in them? And if it does...

In the past decade economists have shown a growing interest in the media. Most of their attention has focused on the...

Angus Deaton has won this year’s Nobel Prize in economics for a string of landmark findings on the study of...

South Korean shoppers snapping up cut-price toys and vacuum cleaners this week can thank the government for the bargain...

The American economist Paul Romer has recently written of “mathiness”, by analogy with “truthiness”, a term coined by...

“Extreme” executive pay and malpractice by big business are undermining confidence in global capitalism, according to...

High drug prices are at best a necessary evil. A world that wants new remedies to be discovered must allow...