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Focuses on the capitalism of newspaper "The Wall Street Journal." Report that the Journal is attracting a secondary, general audience drawn to the paper's fine political, economic and social coverage; Opinion that the Journal is becoming not just the business paper of record, but the definitive newspaper of political economy; Declaration that the Journal today has a total readership of almost seven million; Expansion in its news columns, its staff and its mission; Violation of the unwritten rule that no story ever exceeds fifteen hundred words.

Focuses on the future of American journalism with reference to the conduct of press in the 1936 election campaign in the U.S. View that the press is getting worse in so far as it represents the attitudes and aspirations of those who have become the voice of big business or capitalists; Reference of censorship as an important issue with the American press; Decline in the influence of editorial page in the journals; Effect of radio on the press; Suggestions for improvement of the press.

Several letters to the editor are presented including one on a telegram received from Frank J. Kelley, Jr., president of the Star Peerless Wall Paper Mills, another on the concept of Marxism and a response to the article "Phoenix," by Granville Hicks in the October 28, 1936 issue.

The article explores the transformation of capitalism around the world. Capitalism has faced three major crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic, an economic crisis and climate change. The role of mandates of green innovation and restorative stewardship in addressing the crises are discussed, as well as the need to rethink corporate governance.

Focuses on the author's experience of working in automobile companies such as Ford Motor Co. Recycling of automobiles by the Ford Motors; Information on the stages of the production and sub assembly conveyor; Role of Communists in solving the issues of the auto workers; Report that when there's an eviction about to take place, the people notify the Unemployment Council and the Communists go around and wait till the sheriff has gone and then move all the furniture back into the house; Organization of the Flint strike by the Communists; View that auto workers need democratic organs of education to show the workers the real nature of the capitalist system.

Focuses on the decline of capitalism under the administration of Nazi Dictator Adolf Hitler in Germany. Public spending for the purchase of armaments or for one-sided extension of war industries; Investments in road construction for military strategic purposes; Dependence of German industrialists on the needs of the State bureaucracy and of militarism by reducing the renewal of technical equipment; Attempt of Hitler to console the industrialists by comparing the social peace within Germany to the social unrest in France or America.

Focuses on a conference regarding a dispute over the disposition of German coal. Comments on the importance of Ruhr coal to France and Germany; Emphasis of Germany on the necessity of modification of the Peace Treaty; Impact of the outcome of the conference on German capitalists; Comments of Otto Hue, head of the Miners' Union, at the conference.

Focuses on the economic conditions in Russia with the emergence of free market economy. Struggle of Russians to adapt to the free market; Decline in standard of living with the fall in the value of ruble; Loss of perks for employees with the introduction of the free market; Development of black- or gray-market operations in Russia to adapt to the free market; Idiosyncrasies introduced into Russian sexual life following the emergence of the free market.

Criticizes the marketing strategies of direct marketing companies such as Tupperware, Avon Products and Amway Corp. Tupperware's strategy of a hostess inviting friends to her home to a so-called "party" with the purpose of selling to them; Benefits of salespeople from direct selling companies; Observation that many direct selling companies see themselves as selling not just household products but traditional American values as well; Husband and wife teams in Amway; Author's claim that direct selling is a Marxist parody of capitalism, as a system in which all human relationships are invaded, exploited and corrupted by money.

Contends that the concept of caring capitalism espoused by political activists Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield is a conservative approach of using social consciousness to earn profits for themselves and their venture Ben and Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream Inc. History of the ice cream business of Cohen and Greenfield; Factors that lead to the success of the business; Background of Cohen and Greenfield; Social mission of the company.

Examines historical events and the factors which contributed to the failure of the democratization process in Russia as of May 1995. Criticisms on the political leadership of President Boris Yeltsin; Phases of the Russian post-communist story; Key to understanding the partial failure of the drive to westernize Russia from 1992-1993; Emergence of nomenklatura capitalism and its significance to the transition; Disadvantages of the lack of any credible alternatives to the governmental disorder.

Presents information on several articles published in English publications depicting problems in the English history. Reference to the influence of Marxist socialism on the articles; Focus on the organizations that played a major part in the development of Marxist historiography; Conflict between being a historian and being a Communist; Overview of British Marxist history; Discussion of the emergence of capitalism.

Explores various issues concerning the free-trade negotiation between Japan and the U.S. in the 1980s. Factors that contribute to trade deficit of the U.S.; Private sectors wherein U.S. products are thought to be competitive; Details of Japanese-managed capitalism; Effect of the U.S. government's negotiating strategy on trade barriers set by Japan; Results of a summit meeting between President Ronald Reagan and Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone.

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues. Comments on the article "An Arkansas Farmer Speaks"; Comparison of the Soviet Russian diplomacy with the capitalist and communist worlds; Response to writer Gordon Hayes' article on depression due to its logic; Appreciation of the article "Recent Trends in Biology," by Julian Huxley.

Presents text and quotes, published in different journals. Purpose of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler to acquire Sudetenland and to teach Europe a frightening object lesson; Information that George Tracey, dairyman, was fined $4 and costs for selling milk with a deficiency of 8.23 percent of milk solids other than milk fats; Comment that social philosopher Karl Marx appears never to have grasped the fact that there is no such system as capitalism; Divorce of a couple residing in a New Jersey estate; Fondness of children by Hitler.

Presents excerpts from news articles published in various periodicals. Formation of clubs to promote the campaign of political candidate Bernarr Macfadden for Presidentship of the U.S.; Interview of DeLoss Walker, associate editor of the "Liberty Magazine," in which threatened to kick anyone in the chin who came to him without a job asking for help; Visit of Etta Donner of the Vienna Africanistic Institute to Africa's tropic woods, for studying the social position of women in the region; Comments of Fred C. Clark, National Commander of the Crusaders, that he had no objections to teachers describing conditions in the Soviet Union so long as they made clear that conditions there were bad; Quotation of Fulton Sheen of the Catholic University of America, that Communism has no right to condemn Capitalism.

Focuses on the demand for a loan by Mexico from the U.S. to meet its development and industrialization needs. Lack of knowledge among Americans as to the economic and financial policies of the governments they are helping; View that the problems faced by Mexico are one which grows out of a young and newly native capitalism; Statement that Mexico's income-tax collections are very less as compared with that of the U.S.

Focuses on guild socialism. Report that both socialism and syndicalism are right in what they emphasize and wrong in what they exclude; Claims that Syndicalism results in the opposite social fallacy; Information about the period of revolutionary Chartism; Views on gradualism in England; Belief in industrial unionism; Claims that Fabian collectivism seemed to exalt man in his average capacity as an eater of food, a wearer of clothes, a taker of baths; Report that nationalization of property in the means of production might result in exploitation of the guilds; Structure and membership of guild-society; Solution of the monetary-investment problem. Comments on the problem of getting from capitalist society to guild society.

Comments on the publication of the book "An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution," by historian Charles A. Beard in the U.S. Response to new movements for social justice; Emphasis on the influence of economics on the formation and ratification of the U.S. Constitution; Examination of the interests and experience of each delegate of the Constitutional Convention; Reaction of politicians to the book; Influence of the book on other political literature; Evaluation of the historical method of Beard; Focus on the basic struggle between capitalism and democracy.

Focuses on the state of economy in Yugoslavia. View that the country resembles a primitive caricature of laissez-faire capitalism; View that whatever socialism inheres in this nation resides in the property relationships that have been guaranteed in law; Report that private ownership of the means of production is restricted to enterprises with five employees; Report that there are no handouts, either in welfare or unemployment insurance, except for the disabled and the aged; Information on the economic system of the country; Increase in the per capita incomes, in real and purchasing power terms; Political history of the country; Account of economic performance of the country; View that the dangers to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia are from within, in its ethnic and economic divisions, and from without, in the jealous animosity of the Soviet Union.

Presents information on economic and political development in the United States. Prediction by W.C. Durant, a manipulator of stocks, that the U.S. market would expand indefinitely and security prices would be enormously higher in a year or two; Information on rise of bull market; Increment in the rates of Bank of England by 6.5 percent; Selling of more than six million shares in the U.S. stock market; Efforts made by a consortium of New York banks to stop this fall of market; Opinion of U.S. President Herbert Clark Hoover on good production and distribution of commodities; Persuasion of middle class towards investing the savings in stocks; Report on council of several industrialists, held on November 21; Announcement on increase in wage rate by industrialist Henry Ford; Opinion of President Hoover on importance of increase in purchasing power; Increment in expenditures by semi-public enterprises; Views of Secretary Commerce Robert P. Lamont that everything is normal; Report on efforts of President Hoover to control industrial depression and rising deflation; Plans of President Hoover to speed on prosperity; Launch of billboard campaign which was intended to revive stricken confidence; Report on sign of the downward trend from the U.S. Department of Labor; Offers a look on industrial collapse in 1929; Discussion of lack of plan in any industry; Collapse of New Era capitalism.

Reports that William Z. Foster, the leader of the American Communists, is facing Hamilton Fish, the chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities, that has been appointed to investigate communist activities. Emphasis put by Foster to the recent outrages and crimes against the workers; Allegation made by Foster explaining that the American Federation of Labor has arrived at an understanding with the capitalists against whom it is supposed to be a defense; Assessment of the features of the House Committee which has been investigating the communists.

Focuses on profound changes that Mexico has undergone during the past three years. Mention of the agrarian policy proposed by Mexico's President Lazaro Cárdenas; Discussion on the distribution of the land to landless peasants; Foresight of a program of far reaching economic and social development. Transformation of Mexico into a country of efficient, highly productive and cooperative farms. Struggle against foreign capitalists; Focus on Mexico's national and industrial revolution; Threat to the economic position of Mexico; Transformation of Mexican army into a people's army; Defense by Mexican people against their own reactionaries allied with foreign fascism.

Discusses the issue that whether socialism would work in the Soviet Union, with reference to views of economist Friedrich von Hayek on the issue. Comparison between socialism and capitalism made by Hayek; Arguments of Hayek on price and value theory; Observation that the Soviet state is now approximating the capitalistic technique of the demand schedule; Unanimity of opinion in the Soviet Union on world revolution.

Comments on the author's travel experience in Soviet Union. Concern of the residents to daily activities by reading newspapers, poems and other literary works; Involvement of forced labor on capitalist social conditions; Quality of life; Criticism on the development of their contemporary literature and play.

Presents information about agrarian lands of Balkans: Poland, Rumania, Bulgaria, Jugoslavia, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Austria. Information about people, politics, militarists, economic life, industries and agricultural products of Jugoslavia; Claims that dictatorship was lucky for Jugoslav till 1930; Reports that industrially Jugoslavia is little developed; Reports that nearly 85 percent of industry and banking business in Jugoslavia is capitalized and managed or controlled by English, French, German, Austrian and other foreign money imperialists; Comments on capitalism in Jugoslavia; Claims that in Bulgaria the situation is essentially the same as in Jugoslavia and is considerably worse in some respects; Comparison between Rumania and Bulgaria; Information about Hungarian revolution in the early 1920's; Comments on Communism in the Balkan states; Threat of Nazi aggression in Austria, Czechoslovakia and Hungary; Information about Green Program in Balkan states.

The article profiles Bob White, adviser to 2012 U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. White's association with Romney includes his hiring by Romney's private equity company Bain Capital in the 1980s, his recruiting of a campaign manager for Romney's run for the governor of Massachusetts, and his work as chairs of the 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns. It is suggested that White complements Romney with his more relaxed personality, skills in persuasion, and encouragement of Romney to take risks. White is described as more pragmatic than ideological, but also pushing Romney to stress the virtues of financial success and the merits of capitalism in his campaign.

Discusses the re-introduction of trade regulations during the administration of U.S. President Ronald Reagan. Reaction to the penalties announced by the Federal Communications Commission for broadcasters allowing obscene words on the radio; Trends in federal interference in the private sector; Question of whether the government should intervene in capitalism; Effect of people's concerns about health, safety and environmental issues on the pro-regulatory sentiment; Ways in which deregulation has benefited the airlines; Steps that must be taken by the Reagan administration to introduce economic deregulation and health and safety deregulation that are most suited to the citizen's requirements.

Discusses how cults in the United States can be considered as capitalist success stories. Primary cults in the country; Personal wealth of cult leaders in the country such as Shree Rajneesh, Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard and Sun Myung Moon; Reasons why real estate is the highly preferred form of investment among cult leaders; Reasons behind the emerging trend of diversification among cults; Correlation between economic capitalism and cult operations; Ways by which cult leaders are able to convince people to join their group; Weaknesses of the country's disclosure law that prevent the full revelation of the economic records of cults; Factors that contributed to the rise of the cult leader as entrepreneur; Social implication of the rise of cults in the country.

Focuses on the social attrition in Europe. Relations of noble and peasant, of capitalist and workman; Reconstruction of property; Capital wealth of Germany; Economic condition of a sovereign state at war; National surplus above the earnings of labor; Taxes for the service of the debt will be evaded by some classes of property owners; Attrition on the existing mass of property of the nations at war.

Argues that Phoenix in Arizona has shed its myth of a city founded on frontier spirit and Christian capitalism to reveal its economic failure, political underdevelopment and social naivete. Reason for the defeat of propositions providing social services and educational facilities with state bonds; Social condition of African Americans and other ethnic groups in the city's South side; Role of conservatives in preventing urban renewal; Criticism against the state government.

Focuses on the economic and socio-political instable state of the Soviet Union during the present extended phase of revolution. Evaluation of effects of the revival of economic structure from capitalism to communistic; Discussion of current attempt to reconstruct a government along socialistic and communistic lines and its consequences; Reference of various international publications commenting on false state of political clarity;Discussion over problems resulted from the Soviet revolution; Criticism of the present position of peasants in the country; Information on industrial decline due to ineffective wage structure; Information on the cooperative movement in the agricultural and industrial sectors; Evaluation of governmental policies; Role of Joseph Stalin and his Communist party in the present path of industrialization; Analysis of views of Leon Trotsky, V.I. Lenin and other political giants of Soviet politics.

Comments on the economic conditions in and relations of the United States. Effect on free competition of the formation of trusts; Repercussions of the competition for oil between the U.S. and Great Britain; Trend towards international agreements among financiers and industrialists; Significance of the evolution of the policy of international capitalism; Factors assessed in expressing a preference for socialism over capitalism.

Focuses on the contribution of France's deepening division on the issue of the European Defense Community in enabling the French Communist Party to break out of the political isolation. Interest of the Communists to work with all Frenchmen regardless of political affiliation, who were opposed to the Treaties of Bonn and Paris; Measure of weird cooperation between the Communist Party and individual Gaullists produced by opposition to the European Army; Attempt of the Communist Party to demonstrate to Socialist supporters that the party was an agent of French capitalism and American imperialism.

Defines the aims of the labor unions in Russia for the Labor Union Week, which was organized in February 1921. Focus on labor union's organization of the proletariat for economic struggle in capitalist society; Labor union's raising of the cultural level of the proletariat; Labor union's preparation of Red proletariat engineers and technicians for the organization of production in the interests of labor.

Comments on the economic conditions in Europe, particularly the restoration of capitalism after World War I. Proposal of a radical surgery since Europe is brewing with social discontent; Obligations of the U.S. towards the continent since its industrial and financial power is equivalent to that of all Europe at peace; Rehabilitation of production and employment in the region through the restoration of machinery, material supplies and both domestic and foreign markets; Assumption of the role of a cautious banker by American finance and industry.

Presents a critical analysis of the social credit proposals of Major C. H. Douglas, the English engineer and economist. Support of the social credit movement to preserve individual economic freedom and yet abolish want; Discussion of the failure of capitalism because of lack of markets; Explanation of the deficiency in buying power by the A plus B theorem where A represents money disbursed as payment to individuals in wages, salaries and dividends and B represents external costs; Advocacy of a dividend to every member of the community, the adjustment depending on the ability of the industrial machinery to deliver the goods; Belief that a just price, social credit and a national dividend policy would preserve democracy from running into fascism or socialism.

Focuses on the ongoing conflict between the political doctrines of technocracy and communism in the U.S. Perception of people from various section of the society on technocracy; Publication of books on technocracy; Decline in technocracy as a public phenomenon; Estimation of Howard Scott regarding the extent to which technocracy is widespread in the U.S.; Plan of Scott to dissociate his plan from Socialism or Communism; Preference given to the price system by technocracy which can accelerate the productive capacity of the society.

Presents information on the substantial changes that the Soviet Union's shift from a capitalist to a socialist economic system has inevitably brought in the status and economic rewards of the country's brain workers. View that the Soviet system at its present stage of development tends to eliminate both the risk of total unemployment and the more glittering material prizes which are within the grasp of the highly successful author, dramatist or physician in the U.S. and western Europe; Comparison of the pay of different classes of intellectuals; Claim that the Soviet economic organization has not yet reached the stage of centralized perfection where it can mete out wages and salaries in precise accordance with the supposed social value of the service performed, although this is the ideal which is roughly being aimed at; Social and economic pressure that the Soviet author has to face to instill into his work the general Communist point of view, especially in its concrete manifestations, the industrialization of the country and the collectivization of agriculture.

Presents information on the position of progressive in the U.S. Relationship between the individual and the group, a serviceable instrumentality capable of achieving stated social aims; View that American intellectuals have been guilty of an excessive diversion of their energy into political channels; Information on rational intellectualism; Discussion on the major developments of capitalism; Statement that American radicalism always had a predilection for indulgence in ethical dogmatism and abstract economics.

Refers to U.S. President Herbert Hoover's speeches concerning the theme of an invocation to American tradition and to American material achievements as an antidote to pessimism about the future of income and employment. Assertions made by Hoover about the historic development of the U.S.; Conception of Hoover of the peculiar American system locating its origin in ideas and ideals which liberated the mind and stimulated the exertion of people; Efforts of the U.S. administration for creating prosperity; Inability of Hoover to say anything on public labor exchanges or unemployment insurance in his speech; Need for stabilization of the system and abolition of poverty; Expectations of Hoover to develop a sort of cooperative, liberal capitalism which will justify American ideals.

Focuses on the need to control the behavior of the stock exchange, with reference to the conditions of the Wall Street. Disturbance which the vagaries of stock speculation cause; Effects of the diversion of savings and credit to operations in stocks; Impact of stock speculation by businessmen on the industry and trade; Usefulness of the stock market in a capitalist order; Need to found some means which will adjust the issuance of securities more closely to the real needs of industry, not allowing it to depend on the profits of the promoters and stock-selling institutions.

Focuses on agricultural production in Russia. Russian industry under socialism; Agricultural production in private hands; Wastes of capitalism; Duplication of the productive and distributive mechanism.

Censures an upcoming anti-trust investigation in the U.S. Information on the Sherman anti-trust law; Information on antitrust investigation cases in the past which yielded no tangible results; Delusion held by people that answers to public questions come out of facts; Ways in which the investigators get trapped; Views of the author that the trust-busters are just whistling in the wind; Options suggested by the author if one really desires to approach the issue constructively and deal with it rationally and efficiently.

Comments on the theory of capitalism that is retrieving itself in its cocoon because of the competition that is waging in the international market. Plea made to the U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt by the New England textile industry on the question of the preservation of the rights of private owners; Notification on the point that any import barrier that prevented foreigners from selling in the U.S. would also prevent them from buying raw cotton; Recommendation on the processing tax that should be abolished, in order to reduce the price of raw cotton; Critique of capitalism as a theory that works only if it's constituent units have so little power that they can save themselves, when they are threatened by the competitive market.

Highlights the emergence of the united front of the powerful farmer-labor movement in the U.S. Significance of the newly created Farmer-Labor Political Federation; Attempt of the socialist party to organize and coordinate progressive and radical farmer as well as labor organizations; Formation of a new organization which would serve as a platform of demands indicating the capitalist system and calling for drastic social reforms.

Presents information about the administration of the U.S. under President Franklin. D. Roosevelt. Absence of central planning in his administration; Willingness of Roosevelt to experiment with new ideas; Methodology of Roosevelt in the execution of his duties; Discussion related to detailed programming; Standardization of codes that are to bring order and prosperity to specific industries; Provisions for publication of scheduled future prices; Necessity of profits if business is to expand under capitalism.