capitalism

Americans now broadly support government programs that would be considered socialism in other countries.

France is sounding an alarm for the world's advanced economies: Capitalism is tearing them apart. President Emmanuel Macron and his Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire are using France's presidency of the Group of Seven to argue that the system fuels inequality, destroys the planet and ...

In our age of cultural sensitivity — and vocal aversion to stereotypes — it takes nerve to compare East and West. Kudos then to Gish Jen, an award winning novelist and former lecturer at Harvard University, for venturing into the fray and adding insight.

Capitalism is taking on new forms in the 21st century, and the old arguments to defend it no longer have any relevance.

The leaders of the only private university in North Korea asked Texas A&M University, known for its agricultural economics and public health programs, for help on Monday in teaching subjects such as how to grow food in a land of chronic shortages. The Pyongyang University ...

The history of markets is, in part, the history of lying, cheating and stealing — and efforts to fight commercial crime.

At the root of Germanwings pilot Andreas Lubitz's likely decision to kill himself is that he lived, as we all do in the Western world, in a disposable society.