A small European nation transformed into a global trading empire, reshaping history through the Dutch East India Company, or ...

The current crisis calls for militant action from the working class, with concrete and transformative demands that not only ...

The rule of law — the idea that legal rules apply to everyone equally, regardless of wealth or political connections — is essential for a thriving economy. Yet globally the respect for the rule of ...

Stakeholder capitalism isn’t exactly dead, though. Proponents argue that “business for good” needs to be underpinned by benefits to the business such as cost savings or customer acquisition.

By 1830, one million Americans, most of them enslaved, grew cotton. Raw cotton was the most important export of the United States, at the center of America’s financial flows and emerging modern ...

Three giant asset managers — BlackRock, Vanguard Group, and State Street — now collectively own a large chunk of nearly every corporation. As a result, capitalism no longer works as advertised.

The Wealth of a Nation: Institutional Foundations of English Capitalism, by Geoffrey M. Hodgson, Princeton University Press, ...

The Wealth of a Nation: Institutional Foundations of English Capitalism, by Geoffrey M. Hodgson, Princeton University Press, 304 pages, $39.95 A galaxy of brilliant scholars have tried to account ...

The 19th-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt described a particular type of northern visitor to the Italian peninsula as ...

Modern developed governments, he says, now constantly intervene to alleviate economic hardship. American businesses are swathed in red tape. The Code of Federal Regulations has grown more than 10 ...