The universal rule of capital explains why national leaders can’t solve national problems—and end up being hated by voters as pathetic failures.

Creating an integrated “near-global” economy of like-minded, free-market economies will allow capitalism to survive and ...

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.

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 ...

The Lesson of Venezuela At the dawn of an ordinary day in early January of this year, 2026, the world woke up to shocking ...

The era of US-led capitalist globalization seems to be coming to an end. For Filipino scholar and activist Walden Bello, it’s time to build a new, more equal distribution of power and resources around ...

The standard story of globalization taught in business schools and assumed in boardrooms hails the success of free trade: It erased borders and freed capital, ushering in three decades of ...

The global conversation regarding climate change has, for the most part, ignored the elephant in the room. That’s strange, because this particular elephant is so large, obvious, and all-encompassing ...

Vladimir Ilich Lenin (1870-1924) is best known for his role in the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the founding of the Soviet Union. Lenin symbolized for many people the principles and ideas of the ...

From the standpoint of a higher economic form of society, private ownership of the globe by single individuals will appear quite as absurd as private ownership of one man by another. Even a whole ...