Capitalism is a distinctive mode of economic organization, one that emerged relatively recently in human history. What ...

President Barack Obama will sign into law today the $787-billion economic stimulus bill passed last week by Congress. Debate continues about the merits of the legislation, in terms of whether it will ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) While many people bandy around the term “capitalism,” it actually comes in many ...

A review of Andy Puzder’s new book, A Tyranny for the Good of Its Victims. Writing shortly before President Trump’s return to the White House, Peter Thiel hailed the election as an apokálypsis, an ...

To the editor: Capitalism is good. It rewards innovation and creativity and results in prosperity. In theory, all members of a capitalist society benefit from national prosperity. But, as history has ...

In 2026, America will mark a remarkable convergence of anniversaries. It will be the 250th anniversary of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations, which explained how free people, trading freely, could ...

In the fall of 2019, as editor of Fast Company, I commissioned a package of stories on innovators working to reinvent and bolster capitalism to make it more equitable and environmentally ...

Standard Chartered chief executive Bill Winters says environmentally conscious investing can be good for business, dismissing the impact of a U.S. crusade against mission-driven investments. His ...

Capitalism is often thought of as an economic system in which private actors own and control property in accord with their interests, and demand and supply freely set prices in markets in a way that ...

The terms “capitalist economy” and “free market economy” are often used interchangeably, but there are differences, at least in the theories that underpin them. In both, the law of supply and demand ...