Jared Dillian is the editor and publisher of the Daily Dirtnap. An investment strategist at Mauldin Economics, he is author of "All the Evil of This World." He may have a stake in the areas he writes ...

Free market capitalism is the most effective economic system for creating wealth, allocating resources, innovating and bettering people’s lives. However, it is widely misunderstood and that results in ...

In the theoretical “marketplace of ideas,” good ones are adopted, and bad ones wither away. But history has shown us over and over that just isn’t true. Winston Churchill famously (but unoriginally) ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Capitalism, communism and socialism are economic and political systems that differ in their principles and organization.

Historian Sven Beckert on where the capitalist system came from, what keeps it alive, and what it would take to bring it down. The past several decades have been turbulent ones for the world system: ...

With just one small device, a whole plethora of devices that used to consume resources in the past, such as the telephone, camera, calculator, navigation system, dictation machine, alarm clock, ...

Now that so many people have realized that the capitalist system is riddled with problems, they want a clear explanation about the functioning of the system. They are dissatisfied and impatient with ...

Entrepreneur Nick Hanauer and scholar Eric Beinhocker advocate "market humanism" as a framework for reforming capitalism.

A new book takes a look at the colliding interests of democracies and their economies. In “The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism,” Financial Times commentator Martin Wolf argues that this marriage has ...

So often we take the meaning of terms for granted without knowing their complicated histories and changing definitions. “Capitalism” is one such example. In his new book, Capitalism: The Story Behind ...

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