Discover how command and mixed economies differ, focusing on government control vs. private sector influence, supply and demand, and economic growth strategies.

Lam, 68, pledged to accelerate economic growth and was reappointed unanimously by the 180-member Central Committee at the conclusion of the National Party Congress.

To Lam, the head of Vietnam’s Communist Party, will also become president of the nation. His new stature comes with new risks ...

Economist Clara Mattei explains how her profession has provided elites with a justification for austerity and exploitation.

For many decades, successive U.S. presidents have predicted the fall of the communist regime in Havana. What is different now ...

Capitalism is an efficient economic system because it works directly off consumer needs and delivers supply where there is demand in pursuit of profit. The question is not whether capitalism works, ...

Delegates from Vietnam's communist party are meeting to choose leadership and chart its economic future. The current General Secretary To Lam is expected to keep his post and seek that of president.

Exports are booming, but the property bust is killing household wealth.

Vietnam’s Communist Party has opened a meeting to decide the country's top leadership and policies for the next five years ...

From free speech fights to picket lines to defending political prisoners, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn lived a life on the front ...

State media, embracing the gaming phrase “kill line,” is asserting China’s political superiority over the United States, ...