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

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.” ...

Most Americans would likely be surprised to know that, according to a respected international poll taken in 2022, far more Chinese (83%) perceive China to be democratic than Americans (49%) perceive ...

Fans of capitalism like to say it is democratic or that it supports democracy. Some have stretched language so far as to literally equate capitalism with democracy, using the terms interchangeably. No ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The collapse of one-party dictatorship and centrally planned economy based on state ownership opened up the pathways for the formation of ...

Martin Wolf is one of the most influential economic journalists in the world today, and he is unhappy—to use his frequent metaphor in his new book, The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism—that the ...

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 ...

Metro columnist Brian Hicks' Wednesday column about the animosity between Charleston County and the Charleston Animal Society reported the difference in expenses for neutering stray cats between Pet ...

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, ...