Capitalism

Democratic capitalism in peril?

Markets and democracy are not necessarily compatible, and the inherent tensions are becoming more apparent than ever

Palo Alto, Marxian nightmare

Harris seems to acknowledge that some developments that have taken place under capitalism, such as FDR's New Deal, are actually better than others

Indian capitalism's stress test

The Adani crisis is the greatest stress test for Indian capitalism yet. So far, India has passed it, with almost 10/10

Saving Asia from stalling growth

Asia might not reach its full growth potential, argue the authors of The Connections World, thanks to the nexus between the state and selected private business enterprises in the continent

Harvard Business Review's 5 ideas that will reshape capitalism's next era

To celebrate its 100th birthday the Harvard Business Review has come out with a fat book containing its most influential and innovative articles

A post-crisis understanding of state capitalism

Has the Washington Consensus failed? Lalita Som's book explores this debate from the prism of case studies of eight countries, including the BRICS

How Jack Welch re-shaped capitalism

David Gelles describes unbroken capitalism's exemplary big companies in the 20th century that treated employees fairly and focused on long-term growth - such as GE

Most capitalist Budget, inequality rising in India rapidly: P Chidambaram

P Chidambaram said the Union Budget was the "most capitalist" with nothing for the poor and farmers while sops were being provided to big industrialists turning India into a very "unequal country"

Immersion in the Tata 'black box'

Book review of Tata: The Global Corporation That Built Indian Capitalism

Two 'A's plus… Could concentrated corporate dominance fade away in India?

It's hard to say because of the winner-take-all nature of new platform and network businesses, but Reliance has not been an efficient user of capital, and Adani numbers are varied, writes T N Ninan

Letter to the Editor: Identifying Indian Right

Strong nationalism is always a defining feature of our ideological leaning, says BJP spokesperson

Did central planning end in July 1991?

Government picking winners is alive and well

When brilliance and greed converge

Book review of The Key Man: How the Global Elite Was Duped by a Capitalist Fairy Tale

Vaccine economics: Only pros, no cons

Vaccines are an amazing deal. Use the market to deliver more, more quickly

Sam Pitroda's leap of faith

Book review of Redesign the World: A Global Call to Action

How Covid-19 has taught valuable lessons about pursuit of peak efficiency

As the former Morgan Stanley strategist Gerard Minack noted last year, our pre-pandemic world was primed to maximize financial returns on the assumption that nothing would go wrong

Economic pieties

Book review of Religion and the Rise of Capitalism

Owning databases that we help build: Can it end capitalism as we know it?

Sacrificing some more of our freedom to eternal state surveillance could become a deal with a devil we're growing to know only too well

The ideology of social scientists: A complex balance

The conflict between liberty and equality is often central to ideological differences among social scientists

Reining in monopolies

Anti-trust suit against Google could have lessons for India