Self-interest describes actions that are intended to result in personal gain. It comes with both pros and cons.

Because to Cuban, capitalism means living the life you want to live.

Capitalism cares about our species’ prospects as much as a wolf cares about a lamb’s. But democratise our economy and a better world is within our grasp We have an urgent responsibility. Our existing ...

Mo Gawdat warns that AI disrupts capitalism, threatening jobs and wages. Capitalism relies on human labor, but AI threatens that foundation, he argues. Gawdat suggests AI could lead to economic ...

Business Insider recently launched our Future of Capitalism series to examine shifting attitudes about capitalism, fairness, opportunity, hard work, and success in the US — everything from the federal ...

1776 was a watershed year, and not only because America’s Founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence in July, igniting a political revolution that sent democracy sweeping across the globe ...

University of Michigan provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation US. Digital disruption and the climate crisis are often framed as economic or social challenges. But they force ...

People criticize capitalism. A recent Axios-Generation poll says, "College students prefer socialism to capitalism." Socialism guru Noam Chomsky tells students that. He says the Soviet Union "was ...

With the world in mortal crisis throughout the 1930s, the leading capitalist intellectuals of the day met in a series of fraught conferences. Horrified by the advances of totalitarianism, economists ...

In a bold new history, Sven Beckert traces the origins of our modern economy, from global port cities to the halls of power. Centuries ago, Beckert writes, investors traveled to remote corners of the ...