Long before today’s decline in alcohol consumption, rum played a central role in Canada’s economy, shaping labour relations in the fisheries and fur trade.

Some on the Left believe that the capitalist system will not tolerate any greater interventions in its operation or redistribution of its spoils. There is no good evidence that this is true.

In the Brazilian-made Best Picture nominee The Secret Agent, set in that country’s authoritarian 1970s, a pungent sequence features an animated amputated leg, acting as a surreal “stand-in” for police ...

And Cuban would likely agree, but not for the reason you might think. As Cuban said on Adam Grant’s podcast, Re:Thinking: People don’t fully understand the definition of capitalism. Capitalism isn’t ...

Mo Gawdat warns that AI disrupts capitalism, threatening jobs and wages. Capitalism relies on human labor, but AI threatens that foundation, he argues. Gawdat suggests AI could lead to economic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A few years ago, Floridians voted overwhelmingly to increase the state’s minimum wage, putting the hike into the Florida ...

Sanjai Bhagat, Ph.D., is a professor at the University of Colorado, serves on corporate boards, and is the author of “Financial Crisis, Corporate Governance, and Bank Capital.” Capitalism versus ...

Americans like to tell a familiar story about the last 40 years. It goes like this: In 1980, neoliberals took over. Markets were unleashed. Government shrank. Deregulation ran wild. Greed, inequality, ...

Ever since the 1990s, when to the longstanding cooptation of the Western working class by social democracy was added the collapse of the Soviet Union and its satellites, the saying has been popular ...

Business Insider recently launched our Future of Capitalism series to examine shifting attitudes about capitalism, fairness, opportunity, hard work, and success in the US — everything from the federal ...

California didn’t become the world’s fifth-largest economy by accident. Silicon Valley wasn’t built by regulators. Hollywood didn’t turn into a global storytelling powerhouse because of government ...

In the late 1800s, when the word “capitalism” began to be used to describe an economic system, it wasn’t meant as a compliment. One of the earliest uses was by the French socialist Louis Blanc, who ...