Discover how government impacts capitalism, regulation, and free markets. Explore different economic theories and their views ...

It is often claimed that Americans are critical of capitalism. But a new global comparison reveals that this is not true. A survey on attitudes toward capitalism in 33 countries shows that the image ...

In 2026, America will mark a remarkable convergence of anniversaries. It will be the 250th anniversary of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations, which explained how free people, trading freely, could ...

With a proclaimed socialist, and some claiming the individual is actually a communist, running in the New York City mayoral race, a renewed debate about the three “isms” of socialism, communism and ...

What follows is the brief and Request-For-Proposal (RFP) that Forbes sent to creative agencies in September. This is where the conversation and work started. …that despite creating prosperity, driving ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Heather Wishart-Smith is a board director who covers innovation. capitalism noun: an economic system in which a society's means of ...

President Donald Trump’s increasing control over businesses and the economy is being described by some commentators as “state capitalism”—a mix between socialism and capitalism. But the term “state ...

Anarcho-capitalism is a political and economic theory that merges the principles of anarchism and capitalism. It advocates for a society without a centralized state, where individuals freely exchange ...

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Jessica Mendoza: In the United States, the economic system is usually described ...

In safety capitalism, entrepreneurs boldly predict the future and profit from developing new and better ways to do things. Most young Americans support the capitalist framework linking creativity, ...

The wealth gap isn’t isolated to just the United States. There’s the rich and then the uber-rich, who despite their stratospheric wealth, are largely invisible to the rest of the world. In her new ...