Nation Topics - Ethical Economics | The Nation

Investors who seek out companies that are meeting the long-term challenge of sustainability will have a strategic advantage.

Hotshot CEOs should be required to play by the same rules as small business owners, who have a personal stake in the companies they run.

Capitalism in any form compels us to be greedy, callous and petty. Instead of reinventing it, we should replace it.

The concentration of wealth and power among a few mega-corporations threatens our political and economic freedoms.

Why does the bank lobby and the politicians in its pocket feel so threatened by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau?

The new consumer protection bureau’s mission is to make it easier for consumers to understand financial fine print. So why are bankers so scared?

A growing group of activists and socially responsible companies are rethinking business as usual.

Instead of just fighting those who own the economy, a growing handful of organizations for low-income people are building their own businesses.

Oregon attempts to follow in North Dakota's footsteps by pushing forward a bill to establish a publicly-owned bank.

Measurements of economic growth fail to capture many facets of well-being.