Capitalism
Article
Voter turnout decline and possibilities for the rejuvenation of politics
In this article, the authors address growing concerns around voter turnout decline and its consequences for the future of democracy in New Zealand.
Article
Shoshana Zuboff on the undetectable, indecipherable world of surveillance capitalism
This article is an edited and condensed version of a conversation with Harvard Professor Shoshana Zuboff, in which Zuboff shares an in-depth explanation of the workings of surveillance capitalism, how to “awaken the public mind” to its dangers, and how to rescue the digital future for democracy.
Essay
Capitalism and the future of democracy
America is a mess. So are many other Western nations. Populism is on the rise because our existing system of a market-based liberal democracy is falling short of producing what citizens need and want. This essay argues that this mindset has led to ever-rising inequality and a government that has been captured by business interests...
Report
Beyond neoliberalism: insights from emerging markets
This report, which is the output of an academic workshop hosted in January 2019, is organized around five areas where neoliberalism provides incomplete or unsatisfactory policy guidance: growth strategies and industrial policy, inequality, finance and monetary policy, the environment, and power and politics.
Policy report
Why we should defend capitalism
Given the identity crisis of capitalism, it is timely to highlight once again the proven record of capitalism in destroying poverty and creating shared prosperity—which alternative systems such as socialism have repeatedly failed to achieve.