Estatuto de la competencia en el capitalismo. Visión histórica y situación actual

Cross-border investment. Slow flows. The movement of global capital is in decline and is being rerouted by geopolitics.

Una geografía negativa de la necesidad

Beyond petroleum. How Saudi Aramco plans to win the oil endgame

The world’s rules-based order is cracking

A trillion-dollar AI arms race. Big tech's capex splurge may be irrationally exuberant

1. Plan sobre el planeta. La proliferación de los márgenes

The new economic order. The liberal international order is slowly coming apart

The great regression. The international economic order is breaking down. Critics will miss globalisation when it is gone

2. El capitalismo mundial integrado y la revolución molecular

Holding the strings. The role of finance in shaping Big Tech

The Multimillion-Dollar Machines at the Center of the U.S.-China Rivalry

Confessions of a McKinsey Whistleblower

México: la central fotovoltaica más grande de América Latina altera paisaje de reservas de la biosfera y territorio ancestral indígena

Do Amazon and Google lock out competition? How to assess the trustbusters' case

There are no markets anymore. From neoliberalism to Big Tech

Redividing the world. Governments across the world are discovering 'homeland economics

It's not easy being green. The global backlash against climate policies has begun

Green protectionism comes with big risks

The size of the state. Are free markets history?

How Nvidia Built a Competitive Moat Around A.I. Chips

An enduring error. 'Greedflation' is a nonsense idea

Competition. Across the West powerful firms are becoming even more powerful

In search of mastery. Can China create a world-beating AI industry? Don’t hold your breath

Voracidad de corporativos impulsa los altos precios

Competition. The next capitalist revolution

La dark web, tan grande como la tercera economía del mundo

ChatGPT Inc. Our early-adopters index examines how corporate America is deploying AI

Deep-sea mining. The world needs more battery metals. Time to mine the seabed

Why It Seems Everything We Knew About the Global Economy Is No Longer True

Los líderes del sector advierten sobre el 'riesgo de extinción' de la inteligencia artificial

EE. UU. necesita minerales para los carros eléctricos. Los demás países también

Big Tech Is Bad. Big A.I. Will Be Worse

La izquierda y el modo de vida imperial

Por qué el decrecimiento se ha convertido en el enemigo público número uno del poder

The U.S. Needs Minerals for Electric Cars. Everyone Else Wants Them Too

3 Failed Banks This Year Were Bigger Than 25 That Crumbled in 2008

JPMorgan Chase Returns to a Familiar Role: Bank Rescuer

First Republic Bank Is Seized by Regulators and Sold to JPMorgan Chase

De-Americanize': How China Is Remaking Its Chip Business

A new breed of unicorn. How to make it big in Xi Jinping's China

Can the World Make an Electric Car Battery Without China?

La industria de la inteligencia artificial: una carrera por su liderazgo

Digital capitalism is a mine not a cloud. Exploring the extractivism at the root of the data economy

The new-look global corporation. Are Western companies becoming less global?

Militarising Big Tech. The Rise of Silicon Valley's Digital Defence Industry

Who owns international business?

Capitalismo con características chinas. Conceptos y desarrollo en la tercera década del siglo XXI

The U.S. Has Billions for Wind and Solar Projects. Good Luck Plugging Them In

America's government is spending lavishly to revive manufacturing

This Week, Billionaires Made a Strong Case for Abolishing Themselves

China mira hacia México para satisfacer al mercado de EE. UU

Seeking change. Is Google's 20-year dominance of search in peril?

Green v green. America needs a new environmentalism

Battle of the boffins. The race of the AI labs heats up

Chip networks, chip wars. America's hoped-for Asian semiconductor pact looks tricky

Can Big Tech Get Bigger? Microsoft Presses Governments to Say Yes

Laredo, la ciudad texana que podría convertirse en un hito del comercio mundial

De China a México: este podría ser el rumbo de la globalización

Vampire squib. How Goldman Sachs went from apex predator to Wall Street laggard

Catherine Malabou / La vía anarquista es la única que sigue abierta

The fuzzy corporation. How technology is redrawing the boundaries of the firm

Efficiency be damned. Globalisation, already slowing, is suffering a new assault. Subsidies, export controls and curbs on foreign investment are proliferating around the world

Complex saviours. The new tech worldview

Conglomeritis spreads. What big tech and buy-out barons have in common with GE

Big business. America's best ﬁrms… and the rest

The China Dilemma. Multinational firms are finding it hard to let go of China

Business in America. Facebook and the conglomerate curse

The elephant in the boardroom. Republicans are falling out of love with America Inc

Chain reaction. The structure of the world's supply chains is changing

Megacapitalistas. La élite que domina el dinero y el mundo (Introducción)

The economy. A region that seems unable to reach its potential

Social trends. Latin American society is modernising, mostly for the better

The state. The deficiencies of the Latin American state loom large

The future. The urgent need to reform political systems

Latin America in the world. The rival influences of the United States and China

Trapped. A region caught between stagnation and angry street protests

How democracies decay. Latin America's vicious circle is a warning to the West

Cloudburst. The era of big-tech exceptionalism may be over

A portrait of contemporary neoliberalism: The rise and economic consequences of the one per cent

How democracies decay. Latin America's vicious circle is a warning to the West

Reinventing globalisation. The tricky restructuring of global supply chains

Why China Is Miles Ahead in a Pacific Race for Influence

Alibaba and the 40 officials. Can Chinese big tech learn to love Big Brother?

Lifting the silicon veil. The secrets of big tech

The United States of Amazon. What happens when Amazon comes to town

Declaración universal de los derechos del poder corporativo.

La peligrosa dependencia alemana de las materias primas de China

What goes up? Is the modern, bank-light financial system better than the old one?

The real-time revolution. Enter third-wave economics. How the pandemic reshaped the dismal science

El sistema-mundo de Wallerstein y su transformación. Una lectura crítica

As Beijing Takes Control, Chinese Tech Companies Lose Jobs and Hope

Supply Chain Woes Prompt a New Push to Revive U.S. Factories

Empresas de Wall Street concentran riqueza como nunca en la historia de Estados Unidos

Moonshooters. What America's largest technology firms are investing in

A Digital Manhunt: How Chinese Police Track Critics on Twitter and Facebook

Competition policy. The growing demand for more vigorous antitrust action

Government regulation. Enthusiasm for regulation, often in areas like the climate, shows no sign of flagging

The future of technology. Big tech's supersized ambitions

Business and the state. Governments' widespread new fondness for interventionism

How China Uses Contractors to Spread Propaganda on Facebook and Twitter

Hot tropics. Grab's $40bn Nasdaq listing is a key test for Asian tech

Global finance. China courts global capital, on its own terms

Cloud atlas. The battle of the computing clouds is intensifying

The billionaire battle for the metaverse. Forget space. The race is on to take people beyond reality

Proporción y magnitud

Companies Linked to Russian Ransomware Hide in Plain Sight

With Its Exit, Didi Sends a Signal: China No Longer Needs Wall Street

The Party capitalists. China's communist authorities are tightening their grip on the private sector

Manufacturing a green revolution. South Korea's climate targets will mean remaking its economy

The future of the internet. Don't mock the metaverse

The other metaverse. Companies want to build a virtual realm to copy the real world

At McKinsey, Widespread Furor Over Work With Planet's Biggest Polluters

Apple's nextdecade. Apple exemplified an era of global capitalism that has passed

The new rules. A changed world

Carry that weight. China's next aircraft-carrier will be its biggest.

The big breakup

A dynamic do-over. Rumours of the demise of American enterprise are exaggerated

Bring out the vim-o-meter. Is America Inc getting less dynamic, less global and more monopolistic?

Codified crackdown. China has become a laboratory for the regulation of digital technology

Tecno-fusiones comestibles

The great successor's second act. Apple has had a successful decade. The next one looks tougher

U.S. Formally Accuses China of Hacking Microsoft

Finance Leaders Reach Global Tax Deal Aimed at Ending Profit Shifting

What China Expects From Businesses: Total Surrender

The Failure of China's Microchip Giant Tests Beijing's Tech Ambitions

Grandeza y miseria del Estado social

Three months, 700 steps: Why it takes so long to produce a computer chip

Global Tax Overhaul Gains Steam as G20 Backs New Levies

O futuro sombrio previsto por agencias de inteligencia dos EUA para o mundo em 2040

La empresa criminal. Por qué las corporaciones deben ser abolidas.

The Tech Cold War's 'Most Complicated Machine' That's Out of China's Reach

Marxism v markets. China's techlash gains steam. Again

Climate Change, Capitalism, and Corporations

Companies in the 21st century. A new look at how corporations impact the economy and households

La divulgación de beneficiarios reales: una condición necesaria para la transparencia y la rendición de cuentas empresarial

He Warned Apple About the Risks in China. Then They Became Reality.

Los conglomerados financieros: el poder sobre el poder

El creciente poder de mercado de las grandes empresas: implicaciones económicas

Oligopolios tecnológicos: nuevas leyes económicas, viejas dinámicas corporativas

Presentación: la oligopolización de la economía

The Imperial Mode of Living. Everyday Life and the Ecological Crisis of Capitalism

Crims and spooks unite and fight. Ransomware highlights the challenges and subtleties of cybersecurity

La agonía de una petrolera enferma

Computer security. To stop the ransomware pandemic, start with the basics

Google to Pay $270 Million to Settle Antitrust Charges in France

How the World Ran Out of Everything

Electric shock of the new. How to be the next Tesla

The world economy. The new geopolitics of global business

The little Engine that could. ExxonMobil loses a proxy fight with green investors

Big Setbacks Propel Oil Giants Toward a 'Tipping Point

Censorship, Surveillance and Profits: A Hard Bargain for Apple in China

Liberalismo desenfrenado y pandemia: la encrucijada entre el tecnoautoritarismo y una nueva organización social

Apple forjó su imperio con China, pero ha tenido que hacer concesiones

Dog Biting Dog': China's Online Fight Could Further Empower Beijing

A Global Tipping Point for Reining In Tech Has Arrived

Companies and democracy. The political CEO

Capitalismo digital: dinámicas actuales y resistencias populares

Losing the war. The war against money-laundering is being lost

Tycoons on a tight leash. China's rulers want more control of big tech

A.I. Here, There, Everywhere

De-globalization: Theories, predictions, and opportunities for international business research

Data colonialism. The evolution of US empire

Empresas transnacionales y derechos humanos: coyuntura, debates y perspectivas

Xi’s Gambit: China Plans for a World Without American Technology

Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age

Collusion and collisions. The new rules of competition in the technology industry

Away From Silicon Valley, the Military Is the Ideal Customer

Australia aprueba ley para que empresas tecnológicas paguen a la prensa

Tech competition. The rules of the tech game are changing

Solidarity forever? Performing mutual aid in Leipzig, Germany

The Contagion of Capital. Financialized Capitalism, COVID-19, and the Great Divide

Transnational Capital and the Trend of Global Interactions

It's Hard to Prove': Why Antitrust Suits Against Facebook Face Hurdles

Feminist solidarity networks have multiplied since the COVID-19 outbreak in Mexico

Global finance. The real revolution on Wall Street

Too close to the sun. What the fate of HNA Group says about China Inc's foreign ambitions

Is big tech now just too big to stomach?

U.S. and States Say Facebook Illegally Crushed Competition

Cook v Zuck. Apple's privacy policy kicks Facebook where it hurts

Capitalism’s new clothes

Precariat unite! The gig economy challenges China's state-run labour unions

Battle commences. A formidable alliance takes on Facebook

Aumentó casi 90 mil mdd el valor de farmacéuticas

El violento poder de lo global

Technology and geopolitics. The struggle over chips enters a new phase

Biden’s Choice for Pentagon Faces Questions on Ties to Contractors

A new architecture. Chipmaking is being redesigned. Effects will be far-reaching

The new era of innovation. Why a dawn of technological optimism is breaking

Code Season

La pandemia dispara las fortunas de los más ricos del planeta

Behind a Secret Deal Between Google and Facebook

Bill Gates: America’s Top Farmland Owner

Big Tech Turns Its Lobbyists Loose on Europe, Alarming Regulators

In an age of abundance, why do people starve?

The great mall of China. Why retailers everywhere should look to China

Taming big tech. America and Europe clamp down on big tech

10 States Accuse Google of Abusing Monopoly in Online Ads

Google Up Against Laws That Thwarted Microsoft (and Others Since 1890)

Google Dominates Thanks to an Unrivaled View of the Web

Super-market forces

Who owns the web's data? The fightback against Big Tech's feudal lords has begun

Reports of globalisation's death are greatly exaggerated

Amazon and Apple Are Powering a Shift Away From Intel's Chips

Microsoft and tech competition. Is tech getting more competitive?

Red capitalism. Why Chinese firms still flock to American stock exchanges

China takes aim at its entrepreneurs. Private enterprise faces formidable new obstacles

China's Surveillance State Sucks Up Data. U.S. Tech Is Key to Sorting It

Even in a Pandemic, the Billionaires Are Winning

Winners and losers. Will big firms benefit from the covid crunch?

China–US Tensions: Is Globalisation Dead?

Pushed by Pandemic, Amazon Goes on a Hiring Spree Without Equal

You've been botted. Is the attention economy being captured by virtual eyeballs?

Don't Fear the Robots, and Other Lessons From a Study of the Digital Economy

La gran novedad tecnológica sobre el coronavirus se puede usar y te monitorea sin parar

The Pandemic Is Showing Us How Capitalism Is Amazing, and Inadequate

How One Firm Drove Influence Campaigns Nationwide for Big Oil

Circling back. China's 'dual-circulation' strategy means relying less on foreigners.

Exxon’s Plan for Surging Carbon Emissions Revealed in Leaked Documents

After the reboot. How Satya Nadella turned Microsoft around

No American election will change China's mind. It is sure that America is bent on containing its rise

China gears up to fight back in tech war over chips

What Is Happening With the Antitrust Suit Against Google?

Este es el mundo de Google (y nosotros solo vivimos en él)

American trustbusters take on Google

Forget Antitrust Laws. To Limit Tech, Some Say a New Regulator Is Needed

U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly

Big Tech's Professional Opponents Strike at Google

Why the Government Is Suing Google

Oil Industry Turns to Mergers and Acquisitions to Survive

Google Employees Are Free to Speak Up. Except on Antitrust

Renewable energy. 'Silver bullets' compete with energy solutions already at hand

Artificial Intelligence could yet upend laws of finance

Too Smart. How Digital Capitalism Is Extracting Data, Controlling Our Lives, and Taking Over the World

Farmacéuticas aumentan en 100 mil mdd su valor bursátil

Companies Are Rushing to Use AI — but Few See a Payoff

From AI to facial recognition: how China is setting the rules in new tech

While Millions Lost Jobs, Some Executives Made Millions in Company Stock

Technology. Green machines

Competition. Survival of the fittest. Could the pandemic leave markets more concentrated?

House Lawmakers Condemn Big Tech’s ‘Monopoly Power' and Urge Their Breakups

The corporate undead. Why covid-19 will make killing zombie firms off harder

Capitalismo terminal. Anotaciones a la sociedad implosiva

The future. Directing the disruption

The changing geopolitics of energy. America's domination of oil and gas will not cow China

Global banks defy U.S. crackdowns by serving oligarchs, criminals and terrorists

U.S. and European Oil Giants Go Different Ways on Climate Change

The corporate undead. What to do about zombie firms

Cloud computing. Davy Jones's data-centre

Steam engine in the cloud. How Snowflake raised $3bn in a record software IPO

Digital dominance. A new global ranking of cyber-power throws up some surprises

The trouble with TINA. America's stockmarkets are flying high. Its companies still aren't

Banks Suspected Illegal Activity, but Processed Big Transactions Anyway

Bancos globales permiten lavar 2 billones de dólares

Archivos de FinCEN: Deutsche Bank es sindicado de permitir lavado de dinero

Corporate contortions. Will TikTok survive?

Business and climate change. The great disrupter

The new energy order. Is it the end of the oil age?

The exception. Why is Wall Street expanding in China?

Creative destruction. How America's war on Huawei may boost Chinese technology

Handbook on Wealth and the Super-Rich

A Secret Recording Reveals Oil Executives' Private Views on Climate Change

Amazon, ¿la expansión infinita?

China & US Power

Forget TikTok. China's Powerhouse App Is WeChat, and Its Power Is Sweeping

I Study Corporate Welfare. Even I Was Shocked by This Cronyism

La automatización y el futuro del trabajo -II

The big unfriending. Donald Trump has caused panic among millions of WeChat users

The new state capitalism. Xi Jinping is trying to remake the Chinese economy

The Chinese economic model. Xi Jinping is reinventing state capitalism. Don't underestimate it

Big Tech's Domination of Business Reaches New Heights

Chevron's Answer to Climate Change Is to Keep Drilling for Oil

How to cope with middle age. Google has outgrown its corporate culture

Grilled by Lawmakers, Big Tech Turns Up the Gaslight

Alphabet grows up. Google's problems are bigger than just the antitrust case

Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline Snag Biggest Coronavirus Vaccine Deal Yet

The Economy Is in Record Decline, but Not for the Tech Giants

Tech titans' testimony. Big Tech's grilling provides more show than substance

Big Tech Funds a Think Tank Pushing for Fewer Rules. For Big Tech

The Amazon Critic Who Saw Its Power From the Inside

The Corporation in Economics

When Oil Markets Go Viral

The world's factory. China's prodigious exporters have some new tricks

Informe sobre las inversiones en el mundo 2019. Zonas económicas especiales

The Corporation in History

The genius of Amazon. The pandemic has shown that Amazon is essential—but vulnerable

Informe sobre las inversiones en el mundo 2020. Producción industrial más allá de la pandemia

Climate terror. A critical geopolitics of climate change

Geopolitics. The new world disorder

What's mine is yours. The sharing economy will have to change

Chinese diaspora Inc. South-East Asian tycoons' high-wire act

Incendios en Australia, tormenta DANA, covid-19 y crisis económica. ¿Qué nos dicen cuatro sucesos extremadamente raros en pocos meses?

Beyond ‘China, Inc.’

The Economy Is Reeling. The Tech Giants Spy Opportunity

When data is capital: Datafication, accumulation, and extraction

No safety net. Covid-19's blow to world trade is a heavy one

Covid-19 and the Cloud. The internet is a fossil fuel industry

The end of the corporation?

AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order

The financialised firm

Immaculate misconceptions. America's latest salvo against Huawei is aimed at chipmaking in China

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Big pharma is having a good crisis. Drug innovation is back in fashion

Capital, Territory, and Hegemony over the "Longue Duree"

Globalisation unwound. Has covid-19 killed globalisation?

Covid nostra. The pandemic is creating fresh opportunities for organised crime

Supple supplies. Businesses are proving quite resilient to the pandemic

Why the Corporation

The Results Are In for the Sharing Economy. They Are Ugly

Geopolitics and technology threaten America's financial dominance

Keeping things cornucopious. The world's food system has so far weathered the challenge of covid-19

How to feed the planet. The global food supply chain is passing a severe test

As China goes global, its banks are coming out, too

The Corporate State. State of Power 2020

Tear down this wall. Microsoft embraces big data

West-coast shuffle. Big tech is thriving in the midst of the recession

Green tomorrow. Why every Norwegian ecowarrior has 200,000 petrodollars

Visible and vocal. Delivery apps have transformed urban life in China

Will China sit again at the heart of its own cosmos?

Alexa, Alert Me When the Revolution Comes: Gender, Affect, and Labor in the Age of Home- Based Artificial Intelligence

Creative disruption. The pandemic is liberating firms to experiment with radical new ideas

La automatización y el futuro del trabajo -I

The Global Corporate Elite and the Transnational Policy-Planning Network, 1996-2006: A Structural Analysis

ByteDance. ByteDance is going from strength to strength

Strategic pile-up. The idea that some industries are too important to leave to markets is back on the agenda

Robots Welcome to Take Over, as Pandemic Accelerates Automation

¿Socialismo digital?

Winners from the pandemic. Big tech's covid-19 opportunity

Great white night. Governments are once again splurging to keep big companies afloat

The Great Google Revolt

La biología está acelerando la digitalización del mundo

Perpetual decline or persistent dominance? Uncovering Anglo-America’s true structural power in global finance

Infrastructure. Should data be crunched at the centre or at the edge?

How Visa became the top dog in global finance

Are data more like oil or sunlight? The question highlights the many different faces of data

The data economy. A deluge of data is giving rise to a new economy

Covid-19 is foisting changes on business that could be beneficial. CEOs should be aware of the potential opportunities

Facing the Anthropocene. Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System

American state capitalism will not beat China at 5G

Covid-19 is teaching hard lessons about China-only supply chains

Big tech. How to make sense of the latest tech surge. The big tech firms' shares have been on a tear

Uyghurs for sale. ‘Re-education’, forced labour and surveillance beyond Xinjiang

Chinese technology. With the state's help, Chinese technology is booming

Multinational firms and the extractive sectors in the 21st century: Can they drive development?

400-pound rivals. China views Donald Trump's America with growing distrust and scorn. And cynics in Beijing hope for his re-election

Who will benefit most from the data economy? It is already unequal and that inequality could get worse

Geopolitics. Governments are erecting borders for data

Integrating data is getting harder, but also more important The search is on to find 'digital truth'

Imagining a world without capitalism

Can technology plan economies and destroy democracy? How algorithms could someday be used to optimise the ballot box

Asian-tiger governments are steering their economies with a lighter touch

Chinese investment in Eurasia is not always smooth

How China Obtains American Trade Secrets

China wants to put itself back at the centre of the world

El dilema del crédito chino

The digital side of the Belt and Road Initiative is growing

China is making substantial investment in ports and pipelines worldwide

Data. China's success at AI has relied on good data. But cheap labour has also played an important part

The future. Technological progress in China could still lead to fireworks. Is a showdown likely with America?

Cyber-security. Huawei is a cyber-security risk. But risks can be managed

Microprocessors. China is slowly moving up the microprocessing value chain

Technology and society. Pessimism v progress

Follow the New Silk Road: China's growing trail of think tanks and lobbyists in Europe

One company, two systems. Alibaba sets its sights on Amazon

Still worth it. Despite political woes, America Inc is still thriving in China

Fossil Capital. The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming

Is anybody still a globalist? Rereading the trajectory of US gran strategy and the end of the transnational moment

The autocratic advantage: Internationalization of state-owned multinationals

World revolution or socialism, community by community, in the Anthropocene?

The Socio-scientific construction of global climate crisis

Egalitarianism. Inequality could be lower than you think. But there is plenty to do to make economies fairer

Hidden power of the Big Three? Passive index funds, re-concentration of corporate ownership, and new financial risk

Are anti-competitive firms killing American innovation?

Masters of the universe. The rise of the financial machines. Forget Gordon Gekko. Computers increasingly call the shots in financial markets

Prime Leverage: How Amazon Wields Power in the Technology World

Measuring the 1%. Economists are rethinking the numbers on inequality. An academic disagreement has big real-world implications

The tigers' future. Where do the Asian tiger economies go from here?

Out with the proxies. Proxy advisers come under fire. Not everyone is as pleased as business lobbies

Asian tigers. After half a century of success, the Asian tiger must reinvent themselves

The lives of the 0.0001%. Have billionaires accumulated their wealth illegitimately? The economics of billionaires

Absolute Capitalism

Amazon Everywhere. Prime Mover: How Amazon Wove Itself Into the Life of an American City

Imperialism in the Anthropocene

Artificial Intelligence Is Too Important to Leave to Google and Facebook Alone

China's Internet Is Flowering

Fake it till you break it. Some Chinese firms turn out to have lied about their state pedigree

We're Stuck With the Tech Giants

The Zen masters. AMD, a chipmaking underdog, is having its day. And nipping at Intel's heels

Broad-banned internet. Countries are increasingly willing to censor speech online. That will make life hard for the tech giants

Squeezing the rich. Billionaires are only rarely policy failures. Indiscriminate attacks on the super-rich will do more harm than good

Saudi Aramco's IPO. Aramco is both the oil sector's Goliath and a firm vexed by problems. Is it worth a prince's ransom?

The world economy. Markets are braced for a global downturn. The signals from bonds, currencies and commodities are increasingly alarming

Saudi Aramco. The message from the world's biggest and wildest IPO

Quantum computing. IBM challenges a recent result in quantum computing. Technically, they are right. Practically, it makes little difference.

Hegemony Studies 3.0: The Dynamics of Hegemonic Orders

Firepower: Geopolitical Cultures in the Anthropocene

Breaking up is hard to do. Dismembering Big Tech. It would please investors, but is unlikely to happen.

Slowbalisation. Multinational companies are adjusting to shorter supply chains. The risks of not knowing who supplies your supplier

¿Qué es Trump?

Northern blights. A massive money-laundering scandal stains the image of Nordic banks. Danske and Swedbank will struggle to regain clients' and regulators' trust

Total systemic failure?

March of the machines. The stockmarket is now run by computers, algorithms and passive managers

The world economy's strange new rules. How economies work has changed radically. So must economic policy

Google palns to build 3 new underwater cables to expand its cloud business

The view from Beijing. In Beijing, views of America have become deeply cynical. Many officials are frustrated with Donald Trump

The future. America and China must manage their rivalry or risk disaster. Building trust will be at the center of that process

Open season. The rise of open-source computing. It is good for competition — and may offer a way to ease the tech war.

Open-source computing. A new blueprint for microprocessors challenges the industry’s giants. RISC-V is an alternative to proprietary designs.

Claves para descifrar el sistema imperial de innovación comandado por Estados Unidos

Ubiquitous computing. Drastic falls in cost are powering another computer revolution. The Internet of Things is the next big idea in computing

Connected future. The Internet of Things will bring the internet's business model into the rest of the world. For better and for worse

Three industries. Supply chains for different industries are fragmenting in different ways. Clothes, cars and computers are all being affected

Categorical shift. New rules in California could reshape the gig economy. Firms such as Uber and Lyft may have to treat contractors as employees

Chips with everything. How the world will change as computers spread into everyday objects. The ‘Internet of Things’ will fundamentally change the relationship between consumers and producers

Global supply chains. Supply chains are undergoing a dramatic transformation. This will be wrenching for many firms, argues Vijay Vaitheeswaran.

From the home to the office. Companies are taking advantage of their new ability to track their workers. And,increasingly, their customers too

Cyber security. A connected world will be a playground for hackers. Few companies making connected gadgets have much experience with cyber security.

A way forward? Huawei has made a peace offering that deserves consideration. The idea of selling off its 5G intellectual property is not so outlandish.

Piece offering. Ren Zhengfei may sell Huawei's 5G technology to a Western buyer. The Chinese telecoms giant's boss considers creating a competitor for his company.

El PCCh y el ancien régime

EE. UU.: la élite empresarial cambia de mantra

Banking. Young people and their phones are shaking up banking. Customer service is about to get a lot better, says Helen Joyce

The digital assembly line. Technology firms vie for billions in data-analytics contracts. Two surprising leaders have emerged from the pack.

What are companies for? Big business is beginning to accept broader social responsibilities

Statement of the purpose of a corporation

Los directores ejecutivos seguro le temen a una recesión: podría causar una revolución

Estados Unidos vs China

¿Puede Trump ordenar a las empresas de su país que salgan de China?

Security. Companies must get ready for a riskier world. Rethinking supply chains in an era of cyber-attacks and protectionism

Big business, shareholders and society. What companies are for

A machine may not take your job, but one could become your boss

How to beat Bezos. Baby Amazons take on their American role model. They are not as impotent as it might seem

In the crosshairs. The regulatory woes of Big Tech multiply. But the titans may yet emerge unscathed

Is Google an evil genius? Big Tech does not control its users, however much it may want to

Now playing, everywhere. The tricky task of policing YouTube. How to clean up the world's biggest video-sharing site

Breaking the wave. Investors and regulators fall out of love with colossal deals. The long swell in dealmaking may be subsiding

Europe's nightmare on Wall Street. Deutsche Bank's retreat ends European hopes of conquering Wall Street. The main threat to American banks now is competition from China

States of disarray. Latin America's state-run oil giants are struggling. The companies are unprepared for the looming energy transition

The UTC-Raytheon deal highlights the changing nature of war. Better to fight the next one than the last

Apple Moves Mac Pro Production to China. The $6,000 desktop computer had been the company's only major device assembled in the U.S.

Weapons of mass disruption. America is deploying a new economic arsenal to assert its power. That is counterproductive and dangerous

Apple Moves Mac Pro Production to China. The $6,000 desktop computer had been the company's only major device assembled in the U.S.

In Washington, talk of a China threat cuts across the political divide. Amid accusations of theft and espionage, opinions have hardened

China summons tech giants to warn against cooperating with Trump ban

Can This Startup Break Big Tech’s Hold on A.I.?

Military development. America's military relationship with China needs rules. Armed forces are so different now that a framework for engagement has not yet caught up

Europe's beef with GAFA. Big tech faces competition and privacy concerns in Brussels. And the sector may be the better for it

Los ejecutivos mejor pagados de Estados Unidos

Competing in technology. America still leads in technology, but China is catching up fast. Commercial competition is turning into a zero-sum contest

Los retos y las limitaciones de la inteligencia artificial en Facebook

China v America. A new kind of cold war. How to manage the growing rivalry between America and a rising China

Dragons, disrupted. Foreign suspicion is hemming in China Inc's global rise. If China wants to see more of its companies succeed abroad, it should cut them slack at home

Business takes on the baddies. Is it a bird? A plane? No, it's a corporate crime-buster

El cambio climático hace más pobres a los países pobres

¿Por qué Amazon se retira de China?

BB&T merges with SunTrust. The biggest bank merger since the crisis may herald more. American banking has become a battle of scale

The influence business. Lobbying in Donald Trump's Washington. Advancing corporate America's interests is no easier under the CEO president

Careful what you wish for. Mark Zuckerberg says he wants more regulation for Facebook. He might just get it

Google and the ethics of business in China For American firms, it feels like a Chinese burn

The big freeze. Carmakers scramble to prepare for a chilly future. Alliances and cost-cutting may not be enough to cope with upheavals to come

Corporate crises. Scandals suggest standards have slipped in corporate America. Boeing, Goldman Sachs and Facebook are among the companies in hot water

The future of big tech. Why big tech should fear Europe. To understand the future of Silicon Valley, cross the Atlantic

Cracks in the glass. Apple succumbs to the smartphone malaise. A decade-long boom is ending as consumers hang on to devices for longer.

The world this year.

La lucha contra los monopolios está en auge

Oil rush. Tech firms ramp up efforts to woo the energy industry. Amazon, Google and Microsoft see old industrial giants as a new source of income

Building trusts. The EU's industrial-policy fans want to go back to the '70s. Competition rules are out, mergers and 'European champions' are in

Huawei. America and its allies disagree on Huawei. Britain is the chief dissident, but Germany and Italy are pushing back too

Inversión extranjera directa y la iniciativa china de La Franja y la Ruta.

Conglomerates will never die out, but their form is evolving. As industrial conglomerates break up, tech firms are bulking up

Business risk. Climate change and the threat to companies. Firms urgently need to rethink how they approach climate risk

The new aristocrats of power

El futuro del transporte: viajar en un tubo a casi 1000 kilómetros por hora

Trade War, Water War: The Untold Truths of the Trump-Xi Tariffs

Wondering about the Earth

High-Tech Domination and the US-China Trade War: AI Is Cheapening Authoritarian Governance

The EU Defense Industry: Consolidation toward an ‘EU Army’?

The EU Defense Industry: Background

El impacto del gasto militar en el mundo: 1950-2013

Big mistake. Politicians in Europe are wrong to embrace mega-mergers. Europe needs more competition, not less

The regulators. Regulators across the West are in need of a shake-up. Trustbusters are too cosy with their industries and lack bite

Economists think antitrust policy should pay more attention to workers. There is mounting evidence that some labour markets are not competitive

Capitalismo big tech. ¿Welfare o neofeudalismo digital?

Super-help for the super-rich. Family offices become financial titans. The growing ranks of billionaires' in-house investment teams

Investing and the super-rich. How the 0.001% invest. The family offices through which the world's wealthiest 0.001% invest are a new force in global finance that few have heard of

The 9 companies behind de A.I. acquisition boom

America v Europe. Dynamism has declined across Western economies. Fewer new firms are being started and America's opening to the world has stalled

Unholy alliance. Carlos Ghosn's arrest shows the merits of a carmakers' merger. The Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance is tarnished for good.

Crazy Work Hours and Lots of Cameras: Silicon Valley Goes to China

Key-person risk is alive and kicking in global business. Carlos Ghosn's downfall points to a wider problem.

Going, going, Ghosn. A giant of the car industry is accused of financial misconduct. After Carlos Ghosn, will the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance endure?

Big tech. Technology firms are both the friend and the foe of competition. This presents economies with the ultimate dilemma

Hotspots. Which American industries are most in danger of monopoly? Mapping the problem in America

Solutions. Western governments need a plan for reinstating effective competition

The courts. Judge dread. The troubling lesson from the American Express and AT&T Time Warner cases

Ma where he came from? China will struggle to produce another Jack Ma. No entrepreneur has defined the country's transformation like Alibaba's founder

Command and control. China's tech founders mostly keep an iron grip over their firms. Jack Ma's graceful exit from Alibaba is unusual

Truth and power. Should the tech giants be liable for content? Tech platforms are not neutral. Turning them into censors does not solve that problem

Taking aim at China. How to safeguard national security without scaring off investment. It is hard when the lines between friends and foe are blurred

Cheques and balances. Silicon Valley gets queasy about Chinese money. China's ability to invest billions into American startups looks uncertain

Alibaba v. Tencent: The Battle for Supremacy in China

High fines, meagre results. Google's Android fine is not enough to change its behaviour

Antitrust theatre. Google is fined €4.3bn in the biggest-ever antitrust penalty

Into the danger zone. American tech giants are making life tough for startups. Big, rich and paranoid, they have reams of data to help them spot and buy young firms that might challenge them

Xiaomi's forthcoming IPO shows how the rules of business are changing. The firm embodies a Chinese corporate ideal that is very different from America's

Corporate warriors. The rise of the privatized military industry and its ramifications for international security

Barriers to entry. The last in our series on the shortcomings of economics looks at the discipline's lack of diversity

America's antitrust apparatus prepares to act against big tech. A University of Chicago conclave of experts debates how far to go

Command and control. Antitrust with Chinese characteristics. The country's competition regulators are getting more activist on global deals

Children of Merkel. Where does Germany go from here? German politics has become too quiet. It needs more democratic rough-and-tumble

Unmarked. What to make of Mark Zuckerberg's testimony. Both the Facebook boss and his questioners in Congress fail to reassure

The whistleblower's story. One man's fight against the Swiss offshore banking system. A former banker helps to open up a secretive industry

New era, old contradiction. Fears that Xi Jinping is bad for private enterprise are overblown. Chinese business has not stopped thriving under an all-powerful leader

Capitol punishment. America’s tech giants have no political party to protect them. They could eventually receive the kind of scrutiny that banks received after the financial crisis

Setting a new course. Why South Korea is growing wary of China. Its biggest trading partner is fast turning into its biggest competitor

2018 will be the year that big, incumbent companies take on big tech. Conventional firms have at last got their technology act together

BlackRock v Blackstone. Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the mightiest finance tycoon of them all?

Net wars. A vote on 'net neutrality' has intensified a battle over the internet's future America's. FCC repeals Obama-era rules that ensure all web traffic is treated equally

Generation SRI. Sustainable investment joins the mainstream. Millennials are coming into money and want to invest it responsibly

How tech giants are ruled by control freaks. Facebook, Google, Alibaba et al offer lessons in the dark arts of corporate control

Jeff Immelt´s record shows the pitfalls of capital allocation. Amid a whirlwind of dealmaking, GE´s returns lag

Chief activist officer. Bosses are under increasing pressure to take stances on social issues. How should they respond? Rules of thumb for navigating the era of activism

America Inc gets woke. In the Trump era, big business is becoming more political. Left-leaning employees leave many bosses with little choice but to mount the barricades

What if the unwashed masses got to vote on companies' strategies? Digital technology makes true shareholder democracy more feasible

Mergers and acquisitions often disappoint. Bosses and investment bankers love them; shareholders tend to rue them

Chinese companies' weak record on foreign deals. Overpaying for commodities and trophy assets has become the norm

Remember corporate Europe? It wants to be noticed again. Emmanuel Macron is helping revive the grandest idea in European business

The new bazaar. E-commerce takes off. E-commerce is transforming business and daily life, mostly for the better, says Charlotte Howard

The everywhere stores. Online retail is booming in China. Alibaba demonstrates the benefits of breadth

Home and away. Alibaba and Amazon look to go global. E-commerce giants are trying to export their success

Shop till you drop. Stores are being hit by online retailing. The painful metamorphoses of physical shops

Delivering the goods. Logistics need a shake-up. Surging demand requires new distribution methods

E-commerce. The age of Amazon and Alibaba is just beginning. Rivals and governments beware

Beyond shopping. The mighty Amazon. The one-time bookseller has become a conglomerate

Firms that burn up $1bn a year are sexy but statistically doomed. Five outliers - Chesapeake Energy, Netflix, Nextera Energy, Tesla and Uber - have collectively lost $100bn in the past decade

Cadenas globales de valor y desarrollo: perspectivas críticas desde el Sur Global

Market concentration can benefit consumers, but needs scrutiny. In the digital age, protecting the customer's interests is harder than ever

Ants in your pants. China's digital-payments giant keeps bank chiefs up at night. Ant Financial, with 500m customers at home, plans to expand

Gazelles in the heartland. American entrepreneurship is flourishing, if you know where to look. The high-growth kind has rebounded sharply from lows after the Great Recession

A legal vulnerability at the heart of China's big internet firms. Variable interest entities are their weakest link

Six big ideas. Coase's theory of the firm. If markets are so good at directing resources, why do companies exist? The first in our series on big economic ideas

The Uber dilemma. Self-employed or employee? Britain wrestles with the gig economy. Many labour-market problems would be solved simply by enforcing existing law

How to kill a corporate zombie. The answer may hold the key to boosting productivity

America's uncompetitive markets harm its economy. New research suggests that too little competition deters investment

Toppling the tycoons. Undue reverence for company founders harms Indian firms. The wider economy suffers, too

Local upgrading in global chains: recent findings

Mistrust in America could sink the economy. Part of the problem is a lack of competition in some industries

An action plan for Uber's next chief executive. The ride-hailing firm needs rescuing from a vicious cycle

Private Equity. The barbarian establishment. Private equity has prospered while almost every other approach to business has stumbled. That is both good and disturbing

Ecología y costes de producción capitalistas: no hay salida

App wars. Tencent takes on Apple in China. WeChat launches 'mini-programmes'; Apple bans tipping

Notas sobre la empresa multinacional

Multinational Corporations and the Globalization of Monopoly Capital

América Latina: Fin de ciclo y populismos de alta intensidad

¿Capitalismo 2.0? Etnografía de una empresa del mundo digital

Why the decline in the number of listed American firms matters. Company founders are reluctant to go public and takeovers are soaring

Regulating the internet giants. The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data. The data economy demands a new approach to antitrust rules

Silicon Valley North. How America’s two tech hubs are converging. More than ever, Seattle and Silicon Valley are joined at the hip

How America and China Could Stumble to War

El curso actual del capitalismo y las perspectivas para la sociedad humana civilizada

The University of Chicago worries about a lack of competition. Its economists used to champion big firms, but the mood has shifted

Rescatar la esperanza. Más allá del neoliberalismo y el progresismo

Businesses can and will adapt to the age of populism. How executives balance shareholder expectations and social pressures

Corporate short-termism is a frustratingly slippery idea. Firms are increasingly accused of failing to look ahead. That is a misdiagnosis

Schumpeter. The other side of paradise. Glamorous tech startups can be brutal places for workers

Primed. Are investors too optimistic about Amazon? They think Amazon is going to grow faster, longer and bigger than almost any firm in history

El dominio del hambre. Crisis de hegemonía y alimentos

Corporate ambitions. Amazon, the world’s most remarkable firm, is just getting started. Amazon has the potential to meet the expectations of investors. But success will bring a big problem

La trayectoria del capitalismo histórico y la vocación tricontinental del marxismo

Share trading. Complicate, then prevaricate. Discontent is rife at the very heart of capitalism: the trading of shares

Competition and choice. Getting more consumers to switch. Regulators keep on trying to persuade consumers to shop around for cheaper providers

Expansión de las empresas transnacionales y profundización del subdesarrollo: ¿Cómo construir una alternativa al desarrollo?

El espectro de una China global

Cadenas de valor globales en servicios: el caso de la industria de TI en México

La nueva razón del mundo. Ensayo sobre la sociedad neoliberal

Agroimperialismo y globalización: formas de dominio a través de los regímenes alimentarios

Multinationals. The retreat of the global company. The biggest business idea of the past three decades is in deep trouble

In retreat. The multinational company is in trouble. Global firms are surprisingly vulnerable to attack

Multinacionales mexicanas. Surgimiento y evolución

The president and corporations. How Donald Trump is changing the rules for American business. The president-elect has a new approach to dealing with corporate America. It is not all good news

The great divergence. A group of elite firms has established a sustained lead. This is not a good thing

Norway’s global fund. How to not spend it. It is tough for a small democracy to run the world’s biggest sovereign-wealth fund

Stealth socialism. Passive investment funds create headaches for antitrust authorities

Risky business. Managers need to watch political risk in developed markets as well as emerging ones

BASF. Chemical reaction. How the world’s largest chemical company brews innovation

Future policy. A delicate balance. How to keep the superstars on their toes without making them fall over

Bajo el imperio del capital

Downsides. The dark arts. Superstar companies are good at everything, including pushing the boundaries

Joining the ranks. Do you blitzscale? How superstars are made

Sociedades posneoliberales en América Latina y persistencias del extractivismo

Key attributes. The alphabet of success. Superstars need a dazzling range of qualities

Business in America. Float like a butterfly. Public companies are out of fashion. They need to be revived

Land ownership. Title to come. Property rights are still wretchedly insecure in Africa

Inversiones extranjeras directas y política estatal

Asset management. Active defence. A merger reflects how the fund-management industry is changing

La internacionalización del capital y la frontera México-Estados Unidos

Misconceptions. The new Methuselahs. Superstar companies are far more resilient than critics give them credit for

Driving forces. Why giants thrive. The power of technology, globalisation and regulation

Companies. The rise of the superstars. A small group of giant companies—some old, some new—are once again dominating the global economy, says Adrian Wooldridge. Is that a good or a bad thing?

The superstar company. A giant problem. The rise of the corporate colossus threatens both competition and the legitimacy of business

The other side of Warren Buffett. Don’t Buff it up. An investing hero is not a model for how to reform America’s economy

La economía contemporánea de Estados Unidos y su influencia en el tercer mundo

La nueva división internacional del trabajo. Sus orígenes, sus manifestaciones, sus consecuencias

Teorías de la empresa y la competitividad

Estados Unidos y la hegemonía económica mundial.

Corporate concentration

Warming relations between India and America. A suitable boy? The Pentagon is wooing India, but the bride is still coy

El decrecimiento como solución a la crisis

La dependencia tecnológica. La empresa "multinacional" núcleo de la dependencia.

El expansionismo brasileño en sus límites. Geopolítica, energía, interconexión territorial y crisis material.

La gran crisis financiera. Causas y consecuencias

Flexible figures. A growing number of companies are using 'dynamic' pricing

¿Qué es un patrón de acumulación?

Business in America. Too much of a good thing. Profits are too high. America needs a giant dose of competition

The collaboration curse. The fashion for making employees collaborate has gone too far

The International Corporation

Business in America. The problem with profits. Big firms in the United States have never had it so good. Time for more competition

Elementos para la economía política de la competencia 2 - Notas extraídas de Miseria de la filosofía

Oro blanco, trabajadores negros

Elementos para la economía política de la competencia 1 - Notas extraídas de los Grundrisse

American business abroad. Six lectures on direct investment

Rising powers from emerging markets. The changing face of international business.

Caída

Las nuevas multinacionales. Las empresas españolas en el mundo

Informe sobre las Inversiones en el mundo 2005. Las empresas transnacionales y la internacionalización de la investigación y el desarrollo.

A giant drinks merger. Beer monster. AB Inbev may combine with SABMiller, in a flat market for big beer brands

Africa´s Leaky Giant

Marx y la Fractura en el Metabolismo Universal de la Naturaleza

Digital Taylorism. A modern version of “scientific management” threatens to dehumanise the workplace

SoftBank. Here comes the Son. Masayoshi Son has always bounced back from setbacks, but his latest big moves are raising eyebrows

Las empresas transnacionales: expansión a nivel mundial y proyección en la industria mexicana.

Informe sobre las inversiones en el mundo 1998. Tendencias y condicionantes

Informe sobre las inversiones en el mundo1994. Empresas transnacionales, el empleo y el lugar de trabajo

Informe sobre las inversiones en el mundo 1997. Corporaciones transnacionales, estructura de mercado y política de competencia

Multinationals in China. A harder road ahead. Life is getting tougher for foreign firms, but the fittest can still flourish

Blockchains. The great chain of being sure about things. The technology behind bitcoin lets people who do not know or trust each other build a dependable ledger. This has implications far beyond the cryptocurrency

The promise of the blockchain. The trust machine. The technology behind bitcoin could transform how the economy works

American capitalism. Reinventing the deal. America’s startups are changing what it means to own a company

Global Banks. Emerging troubles. Banks that financed the boom in emerging markets are in a tricky spot

With great power. Markets are dangerously dependent on central banks

Management. Reinventing the company. Entrepreneurs are redesigning the basic building block of capitalism

Peak profits. The age of the torporation. Big listed firms’ earnings have hit a wall of deflation and stagnation

Corruption and natural resources. A fight for light. NGOs and governments grapple over ownership of mining and energy firms

¿Por qué tanta desigualdad?

Laberintos de racionalidad. ¿Crisis civilizatoria?

Informe sobre las inversiones en el mundo 1995. Las Empresas Transnacionales y la Competitividad

Mergers (2). The beerhemoth. SABMiller is AB InBev’s toughest takeover yet. It may not be its last

Mergers (1). Partly cloudy. The merger of Dell and EMC is further proof that the IT industry is remaking itself

Commodity chain in the world-economy prior to 1800

The sticky superpower

Conflictos transnacionales: Centroamérica, cambio social y globalización

A global elite?

Informe sobre las inversiones en el mundo 1996. Acuerdos en materia de inversión, comercio y política internacional

Canibalismo corporativo: lo que sigue

Una introducción al capitalismo conducido por las finanzas

Renewable energy. Puffs of hope

Taxing multinationals: patently problematic

Coase, la competencia y la corporación

Odebrecht. Principles and values

Nigeria’s oil company. Petrodollar spill

China and Russia. Packing up the suitcase trade

Israel’s computer-security firms. Cyber-boom or cyber-bubble? Internet security has become a bigger export earner than arms

South Africa’s state-owned companies. Commanding plights. Poorly managed state companies are dragging down the wider economy

América Latina y el capitalismo global: una perspectiva crítica de la globalización

Primera parte. Introducción: Escala y diversificación

The epochal crisis

Volkswagen, Deutsche Bank, Siemens: el lado oscuro del capitalismo alemán

The network of global corporate control

Las cadenas productivas como marco analítico para la globalización

La naturaleza de la empresa. Orígenes, evolución y desarrollo

China and the multinationals

¿Estamos realmente ante el fin del neoliberalismo? La crisis y la consolidación del poder de las clases dominantes.

Multinationals and global capitalism. From the nineteenth to the twenty-first century

El neoliberalismo como destrucción creativa

Leviathans. Multinational Corporations and the New Global History

La era de la información en su perspectiva histórica: Introducción

Introduction: Global commodity chains

Sobre o poder global

Refining of FDI motivations by integrating global value chains’ considerations.

Vigilar y Organizar. Una introducción a los Critical Management Studies

Multinational corporations in transnational networks: theoretical and regulatory challenges in historical perspective

Multinationals

La economía verde y las corporaciones

Las sociedades transnacionales

13 Bankers

Multinational enterprises and the global economy

New challenges for international business research

Internalization and non-equity forms of international involvement

El nuevo hemisferio asiático: el irresistible desplazamiento del poder global hacia el Oriente

Producing hegemony. The politics of mass production and American global power

Geopolitical economy, after US hegemony, globalization and empire

El Minotauro global

Business History around the world

Global Production Networks. Theorizing economic development in an interconnected world

Nuevas teorías de la empresa. Una revisión crítica

The embedded firm. Corporate governance, labor, and finance capitalism

The genesis of a governing institution

Financial elites and transnational business who rules the world?

El fin del poder. Empresas que se hunden, militares derrotados, papas que renuncian y gobiernos impotentes: cómo el poder ya no es lo que era

Transnational companies and security governance hybrid practices in a postcolonial world

Bumpkin bosses. Leaders of Western companies are less globally minded than they think they are

Inside Silicon Valley. Empire of the geeks. Silicon Valley should be celebrated. But its insularity risks a backlash

What kind of capitalism? The liberal sort may rebound as economies revive

Shale oil and gas. Fractured finances. America’s shale-energy industry has a future. Many shale firms do not

Back on top. American private enterprise dominates the corporate premier league again, thanks to waning valuations of state-backed firms

Meet Shinzo Abe, shareholder activist. At last Japan has introduced corporate-governance reforms that will make a difference

An uneasy friendship. The crisis in Ukraine is drawing Russia closer to China. But the relationship is far from equal

The 100-year view. Investors take a century-long bet on boom-and-bust Mexico

A world of robber barons. The relationship between business and government is becoming increasingly antagonistic, says Philip Coggan. But the two sides should not overdo it: they need each other

Rival versions of capitalism. The endangered public company. The rise and fall of a great invention, and why it matters

The endangered public company. The big engine that couldn’t

Gazprom. Margrethe and the bear. The European Union’s trustbuster turns her fire on Gazprom—marking a big change in European policy and the gas business

Management theory. Survival of the fittest

Perpetuating inequality. To those that have

Asia. Asian values. In the world’s most dynamic region, family companies occupy the commanding heights of capitalism

Making it work. The family way. Distinctive problems call for tailor-made solutions

The downsides. All too human. How families can cause trouble for their firms

The upsides. Old-fashioned virtues

Typology. United by diversity. The four main types of family business

Family companies. To have and to hold

Bank resolution. Pre-empting the next crisis

Schumpeter. Firm beliefs. 'Asian' corporate values seem to be making a comeback—but appearances are deceptive

Free exchange. The bigger, the less fair. The growing size of firms may help to explain rising inequality

Shareholder activism. Capitalism’s unlikely heroes

Everybody wants to rule the world. Internet monopolies

Should digital monopolies be broken up? Trustbusting in the internet age

State capitalism in the dock. Government-controlled firms

Mergers and acquisitions. The new rules of attraction

Oil and water; North American energy

The Pacific Age. Under American leadership the Pacific has become the engine room of world trade. But the balance of power is shifting, writes Henry Trick

Family firms. Business in the blood

Smartening up their act. Chinese phonemakers are preparing to take on the world

Free exchange. It’s complicated. Jean Tirole has won the Nobel prize in economics for his work on competition

Investor-state dispute settlement. The arbitration game

Fully charged. Tesla gains new admirers as it heads towards the mass market

Goldilocks and the bears. Investors have been forced to reassess their rosy view

The worldwide wobble. The world economy will have a bumpy 2014. But the recovery is not, yet, at risk

Shoe on the other foot. Spain’s crisis and Latin America’s cash prompt a gradual rebalancing of relations

Trading up. Which country gets the most out of international commerce?

2013 in charts. A creeping ascent

The practice of foreign policy. Another morning in America. A to-do list for the world’s superpower

Soft power. Making up. In the Bush years America seemed overmighty. It is now pulling back

Time to pay the piper. America’s economic difficulties are mostly political

Military power. The uses of force. Two difficult wars offer compelling lessons

Keeping watch. Economic success has given China greater weight, but not nearly enough to tip the balance

If I ruled the world. Being in charge is hard work, but it has its perks

The history of globalization. Railroads and hegemons. Globalisation depends on technology and politics

A world turned upside down. Giant state-owned firms have fallen back out of fashion. Good

Where’s the next Lehman? Five years after the maelstrom of September 2008, global finance is safer. But still not safe enough

Shifting sands. Upheaval at the less visible end of the computer industry

Shaken, not stirred. The breadth of the latest slowdown is disconcerting

Avoiding the fire next time. After the Dhaka factory collapse, foreign clothing firms are under pressure to improve working conditions at Bangladeshi suppliers—or to go elsewhere

Gloom and boom. The motor industry’s fortunes are increasingly divided, says Peter Collins. But in the right markets and with the right technologies, they look surprisingly bright

Shall we? The urge to merge could be about to return

Global niche players. Nordic companies have coped well with globalisation, but need new blood

On the turn. India is no longer the automatic choice for IT services and back-office work

Señores, start your engines. Cheaper than China and with credit and oil about to start flowing, Mexico is becoming a Brazil-beater

A new Atlantic alliance. Brazilian companies are heading for Africa, laden with capital and expertise

Not a cloud in sight. The best places to store your terabytes

Summertime blues. The slowdown is spreading around the world

Powering down. More months of uncertainty about the euro area will weigh on the global economy

The third industrial revolution. The digitisation of manufacturing will transform the way goods are made—and change the politics of jobs too

The biological factor. Who and what will follow Raúl?

Can it be…the recovery? The outlook for the world economy is better than it was, but there are still big risks out there

The end of cheap China. What do soaring Chinese wages mean for global manufacturing?

Come and get me. Argentina is putting international arbitration to the test

The long view. And the winner is…

The world in their hands. State capitalism looks outward as well as inward

Pros and cons. Mixed bag

A choice of models. Theme and variations

New masters of the universe. How state enterprise is spreading

Something old, something new. A brief history of state capitalism

The visible hand