Heretics always remain tied to the church. To break out, what you do is nail your theses on the door, turn around and develop your own framework.” Most students of Anwar Shaikh, including the coauthors of this piece,

In 2014, the French economist Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century became an international sensation, reshaping the inequality debate and launching its author into superstardom. Piketty was right to point out that the political case for ...

Levy, a respected scholar, entrepreneur, and public policy advisor, introduces China 2035: The End of Capitalism As We Know It as both a study and a statement. It examines how China’s evolving governance model, technological strategy, and social architecture could redefine not only capitalism but the global understanding of prosperity itself.

The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, has given a downbeat assessment of the global economy in her curtain raiser speech for its meetings, held together with the World Bank, this week. International Monetary Fund Managing ...

Achieving greater transparency and accountability in democratic governance and in capitalist economics must occur simultaneously. shutterstock Secrecy has become as important for corporations as transparent and taxable profits used to be, according to ...

It is perfectly obvious that failings in Western capitalism are at the root of the social and political dysfunction gripping the world. Income and wealth have indeed been monopolized by the richest few leading to widening economic inequality, stagnate ...

The official death toll in the catastrophic fire that engulfed seven high-rise residential buildings of Wang Fuk Court in Tai Po, Hong Kong rose to 151 on Monday. Over 2,000 survivors have lost everything and are now homeless. Hundreds are housed in ...

Over the last decade, exponential growth rates have turned Southeast Asia into an unmitigated success story of 21st century capitalism. However, behind the facade lurks a murky underworld, argues the University of Chicago sociologist Kimberly Kay Hoang in ...

One’s own experience can be a terrible guide, when it comes to trying to understand capitalism. What should we examine instead? Take a look.

As a 45-year-old who just left his job, I read George Soros's assessment of the world economy with concern ("The Crisis of Global Capitalism," The World Economy, Feb. 1). Soros predicts that Thailand and South Korea will linger in depression and Malaysia ...