If you’re a human being who appreciates the finer things in life, like food and shelter, you might have noticed that things ...

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 for ...

With the world in mortal crisis throughout the 1930s, the leading capitalist intellectuals of the day met in a series of fraught conferences. Horrified by the advances of totalitarianism, economists ...

Delegates at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum talk a lot about the world's problems, but there is little concrete action. (Photo by LUDOVIC MARIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) Just before ...

LONDON, July 19 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Since the 1970s the average rate of growth in the world’s income per person has fallen from nearly 3% a year to under 1%. Economists scratch their heads at ...

Before we talk about the role of crisis phenomena in the emergence of modern wars, in our view it is important to note that wars actually arise, firstly, from the nature of the ruling mechanism “THE ...

Michael C. Jensen, an economist and Harvard Business School professor whose evangelizing for stock options, golden parachutes and leveraged buyouts helped reshape modern capitalism and empower Wall ...

Historical projects, more often than not projects of conquest and domination, are often forced to assume new forms to protect their hegemony. No new historical development ever jumps on the world ...

— -- The 2012 presidential election may be a referendum on President Obama's job performance, specifically his ability to improve an economy that continues to teeter along a dangerous edge. But ...