Simon Caulkin

Management’s responsibility is to democratic society, not the world’s least qualified boss.

The capitulation of Big Tech’s titans to Trump’s wider agenda theatens to take management back to the Dark Ages

Social philosopher and management thinker who was known – and loved – far beyond business circles

Taxing private equity properly should be a Labour no-brainer. PE adds little social or economic value, and the only ‘outsize returns’ it reliably generates are for its own insatiable managers and founders. So why did Reeves chicken out?

Unreachable companies and impersonal institutions: a crisis of unaccountability is fuelling popular rage and a mushroom cloud of conspiracy theories, a new book suggests. For answers, ignore economics and look to cybernetics, says Dan Davies

The downfall of the US aerospace giant was not accidental. It has important lessons for the economy as a whole, not just other shareholder-driven companies.

We’re used to targeted ads – though most people hate them. The next step: with the aid of surveillance and smartphones, companies are now beginning to personalise what we pay.

Sir Keir Starmer’s first job as PM is to bung the holes in the UK’s leaky ship of state and stop it sinking. Only then can the new crew turn it round and point it in a fresh economic direction

Economic incentives work, no question. But unless they are aligned with society’s interests, the inducements that were meant to generate more wealth end up consuming all the value that they created.

Private equity is a factory for billionaires whose uncomprising methods are incompatible with the public and caring services where they have made themselves at home