In one of the latest issues of The Economist, today’s corporate boss was compared to a shipwrecked Gulliver tied to the ground by Lilliputians. Two decades ago bosses were relatively unbound, but now things have [...]

State capitalism is usually described as a profit-seeking economic activity undertaken by the state with management of the productive forces in a capitalist manner. Across the OECD, state-owned enterprises have a combined value of almost [...]

On 19 January, Phil Schiller, the senior vice president of worldwide marketing at Apple, unveiled a software called iBooks 2 at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Last year the textbook market was worth [...]