Free-Market Economics

Profits have become all-but guaranteed for wealthy elites, says economist William Davies

What is rentier capitalism and does it apply to big tech companies? Affiliated Researcher, Sam Gilbert, explains.

Two new books reveal how our economy is increasingly oriented around the interests of asset owners – and increasingly uncaring about the fates of everyone else.

STATE OF POWER

IIPP Visiting Professor of Practice, Damon Silvers, explores the understanding of neoliberalism as a global system of political economy rather than as a set of politics within advanced countries, and the paradox of neoliberalism, that an ideology of freedom produces a reality of power.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Ricardo. He contended that existing economic policy unduly favoured landlords above all others and needed to change, and that nations would be less likely to go to war with their trading partners if they were more reliant on each other.

While much of the country struggles, the richest continue to get richer, driven by a surging stock market.

Small and big businesses alike have been hit by the degradation of the earth's natural resources

An economic, social and political history of the evolution of income and wealth

DISASTER CAPITALISM reveals the dark reality in the global aid and investment industry. It's a complex web of interests that spans the earth from powerful nations and multinational corporations to tribal and village leaders. The money that fuels this industry sometimes comes from well-intentioned individuals who donate money after natural disasters. It's also the tax dollars of ordinary citizens in Western countries that's dolled out in the name of foreign policy and diplomacy. Disaster Capitalism takes the viewer inside three countries, Haiti, Afghanistan and Papua New Guinea, to reveal ho...

The value of the money you have is changing. “Debt “and what it means is fundamentally changing.

A debate with economics writer Steven Pearlstein.

Why the bogus shareholder value theory of corporate governance needs to die.

The most quoted economist of all time is also one of the most misunderstood

WeWork has many problems, starting with unchecked CEO control There was a time when the purchase of a single share of stock would give the buyer the right to vote on company matters, and on an equal footing with other shareholders. Not so much now.

How ideas about free markets and a doodle of an economic curve on a cocktail napkin reshaped the U.S. economy, for better and worse.

The long read: After a crisis, private contractors move in and suck up funding for work done badly, if at all – then those billions get cut from government budgets. Like Grenfell Tower, Hurricane Katrina revealed a disdain for the poor

Milton Friedman and his peers set America on the course of shareholder primacy. Business leaders and academics are considering what must be done for a stakeholder-driven alternative.

Big firms in the United States have never had it so good. Time for more competition

For decades we’ve slavishly chased economic growth as an end in itself. But as anger at government and big business grows, now’s the time to question what we thought we always knew, says David Pilling