Capitalism

CA, GA, OK introduce bills promoting accountability and transparency in deals to outsource public services to for-profit corporations.

Today, CVS Caremark, the second-largest drugstore chain in the country, announced that it will stop selling all tobacco products by October 1.

Economics professor Heiner Flassbeck says the “market” is good for making high profits from international exchange rates; the only rational solution for a healthy economy is take exchange rates …

Calvinism's embrace of wealth as a sign of divine election lives on in the red state/blue state religious and social welfare divides.

Corruption is endemic to the capitalist system and has not been successfully regulated away. Perhaps a system change is warranted, suggests Richard D Wolff.

“The individual bully is the creation of the bully nation,” according to sociologists Yale Magrass and Charles Derber, who note that bullying Chris Christie-style is a product of a …

Contrarians of the world should unite to identify and challenge these ruling ideas.

Kevin O'Leary's recent remarks inspire this open letter to the 85 richest people in the world.

Gar Alperovitz tells Paul Jay that if you concentrate wealth at the top, there's not enough purchasing power to make the rest of the system work.

Author Costas Lapavitsas discusses how the neoliberal capture of the state has laid the ground for the financialization of capitalism.