Causal Factors

What separates the rich from the rest of us? The incredibly lucrative corporate career of retiring Google top exec Eric Schmidt may offer some clues.

Donald Trump’s putdown of suffering Puerto Ricans reflects a mindset that has long afflicted the awesomely affluent.

The new Democratic Party ‘Better Deal’ agenda features a job-training proposal that demands less from CEOs than the training proposal Bill Clinton ran on a quarter-century ago.

The dominant answer since the 1970s: shareholders and shareholders alone. But thoughtful analysts of the corporate manager role once had a much more egalitarian perspective.