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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff speaks onstage during the TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco event in San Francisco on Oct. 3, 2019. Benioff is a proponent of stakeholder capitalism, the belief that companies must look out for the broader good.

Politics & Government

Why the Salesforce CEO wants to redefine capitalism by pushing for social change

7:06pm October 16, 2021

by David Gura

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is an evangelist for stakeholder capitalism — the belief that companies should be driven by more than profits: They should also take care of the broader social good.

Friedrich von Hayek at the end of the 30's. Hayek founded the Mont Pelerin Society and was an early leader in neoliberal thinking.

Capitalism Has Become An Ideology In Today's America. Here's How It Happened

7:00am July 05, 2021

What started as an economic system has become an all-encompassing force. That wasn't inevitable. NPR's Throughline examines a project that has taken hundreds of years — and is still developing.

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Bill Browder crosses Red Square in 2004, at the height of Hermitage Capital Management's success.

In 'Red Notice,' Success Draws Treachery, Tragedy In Putin's Russia

3:01pm May 01, 2015

by NPR Staff

Robert Siegel talks to Bill Browder, an American financier who was expelled from post-Soviet Russia and saw an attempt to claim his company devolve into a deadly bureaucratic and legal farce.

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Visitors walk past a portrait of late communist leader Mao Zedong on Tiananmen Gate in Beijing on Sept. 30, the eve of National Day.

World News

Capitalism Is Making China Richer, But Not Democratic

11:41pm November 07, 2014

by Frank Langfitt

The U.S. thought trade and investment would eventually make China more democratic. In fact, it's had the opposite effect: creating a rich, authoritarian leadership class that remains repressive.

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