Capitalism is the greatest socio-economic system in human history, because it’s so moral and so productive – the two features so essential to human survival and flourishing. It’s moral because it ...

Right-wing critics have a new favorite word to malign President Obama’s economic policies: corporatism. Naturally, it’s an ugly word. Whether it evokes Benito Mussolini’s fascist Italy or just an ...

"After months of struggling to find their footing, it looks like the GOP has finally found an effective spokesman: Republican leaders have unveiled the reanimated corpse of Ronald Reagan (and) the ...

When a front-running presidential contender tells the country that thanks to Barack Obama, "[w]e are only inches away from ceasing to be a free market economy," one is left scratching one's head. How ...

Corporatism is out of fashion; it has been a dirty word since the 1970s. Yet it helped to create the postwar settlement that saw an unprecedented growth in working-class wealth and opportunity. It ...

Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy, Matt Stoller, Simon & Schuster, 608 pages. The system isn’t broken; it’s working exactly as it was designed too. This lesson, above all, ...

Classic corporatism, such as Mussolini’s, sought to restructure the capitalist economy so as to speed economic growth — growth of productivity and of various national capabilities — far beyond the ...

This is a meaty subject so I’m going to split it up over several posts. First a thoughtful letter: Dear Jonah Goldberg, You have identified Italian fascism as being “socialist” and “leftist” in its ...