How are calling, capitalism and democracy connected? Photo illustration by Valerie Myers. photos by Michael Lee/Getty Images and Thanasis/Getty Images. Ask someone what a calling is, and they’ll ...

The premise is simple in Growth, Democracy or Climate Action? The New Trilemma of Advanced Capitalism. You can have any two ...

In his new book, "Private Power and Democracy's Decline," Stanford University professor emeritus Mordecai Kurz links monopoly ...

Mordecai Kurz argues tech oligarchs erode democracy through monopolies – and predicts how the trend may end ...

Fans of capitalism like to say it is democratic or that it supports democracy. Some have stretched language so far as to literally equate capitalism with democracy, using the terms interchangeably. No ...

Economic collapse shattered Germany in the 1930s, allowing fascism to rise from the wreckage. Amid national humiliation and mass unemployment, Hitler exploited the public fear, redirected economic ...

Democratic capitalism is a system that marries liberal democracy and free-market capitalism. This union creates tensions, and requires balancing competing aims. But this tension is healthy, not ...

Victorian Trades Hall is the oldest continuously operating trades hall in the world. And even before it was constructed, in ...

A conversation with the historian Quinn Slobodian about economic loopholes, the end of neoliberalism, and his new book Crack-Up Capitalism. Ad Policy A visitor takes photos of the Kowloon district ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Georgescu is chairman emeritus of Y & R advertising. Historian Heather Cox Richardson recently highlighted a shocking ...

When journalists and intellectuals polemicize against the allegedly large influence of the rich, their primary aim is to preserve their own dominance in shaping public opinion. One of the problems, ...