This is an extract from The Master’s Tools: How Finance Wrecked Democracy (and a Radical Plan to Rebuild It), now available from Verso Books. Capitalist property relations, whose basic feature ...

Economic power is political power. We spoke with Peter Phillips, author of Titans of Capital, about how the capitalist class ...

Published in PNAS, this large cross-national statistical study shows economic inequality is one of the strongest predictors of where and when democracy erodes—even wealthy and longstanding democracies ...

worsening economic inequality and foreclosing even the prospect of economic democracy, which operates on the presumption that economic disenfranchisement breeds electoral disenfranchisement.

Most people around the world want to live in a democracy, and yet fewer and fewer trust their governments. This is partly ...

Udupi: Revenue minister Krishna Byre Gowda said that despite the deep roots of democracy, economic equality is yet to be fully realised.

Therefore, preserving press freedom is not only vital for democracy but also serves as a foundation for sustained economic growth and development. Addressing the challenges posed by godi media ...