Économie

Small states have learned in recent decades that capital accumulates where taxes are low; as a result, tax havens have increasingly competed for the attention of international investors with tax and …

The collapse of neoliberal hegemony in the western world following the financial crash of 2007-8 and subsequent rise of right-wing authoritarian personalities has been described as a crisis of ‘the p …

An Economist Biggest Book of the Year How commerce determines whether America preserves the peace or goes to war When the Cold War ended, many believed that expanding trade would usher in an era of p …

Banking on Growth Models contends that China’s rapid economic rise from the late 1970s to today has been built on and shaped by a highly politicized and inefficient bank-centric financial system . St …

Liberia is a dysfunctional country as the result of its patronage practices, which include nepotism, bribery, and election fraud. Stephen H. Gobewole, who grew up in Liberia, explains how these corru …

Despite insoluble contradictions, intense volatility and fierce resistance, the crisis-ridden capitalism of the 21st century lingers on. To understand capital’s paradoxical expansion and entrenchment …

Many of the problems of globalization confronting us today—including finding the right balance between economic growth, technological advance, and international trade, and human welfare—also trou …

What if the problems of modern society don’t come from production, but rather consumption and the system of cultural signs? In this classic work from the defining intellectual of the postmodern, Jean …

Contemporary capitalism produces more and more money, debt, and inequality. These three trends have a common cause: the privilege of private banks to create money by means of accounting – by the stro …

The Shadow of the Mine tells the story of King Coal in its heyday, the heroics and betrayals of the Miners’ Strike, and what happened to mining communities after the last pits closed. No one personif …