(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Valerie L. Myers, Ph.D., University of Michigan (THE CONVERSATION) Ask someone what a ...

If you listen to Democrats at both the state and national level today, capitalism is the enemy.

With the constant barrage of news, it is easy to focus on the president’s newest outrage. Less obvious, permanent damage is being done to our republic’s founding principle of “democratic capitalism.” ...

It is common in Western discourse to claim there is a natural connection between capitalism and democracy. Sometimes the two concepts are virtually fused together. I always find this odd because I ...

Capitalism must adapt to change, reforming to sustain living standards and preserve legitimacy and liberal democracy ...

Capitalism recognizes individual effort, private ownership, and the pursuit of financial independence through hard work, innovation and competition. Unregulated savage capitalism prioritizes profit ...

In 1982, I was appointed welfare commissioner for the State of Connecticut. During a TV news appearance early in my tenure, a reporter asked me whether I had ever been on food stamps. I had not; my ...

President Donald Trump has finally figured out a way to make Mexico pay for his border wall: The United States will simply become Mexico, and the ultimate accounting gimmick will finally be complete.

Ask someone what a calling is, and they’ll probably say something like “doing work you love.” But as a management professor who has spent two decades researching the history and impact of calling, ...