The Great Enrichment, a phrase coined by my Cato Institute colleague Deirdre McCloskey, of the past 200 years or so lifted billions from the misery that defined human existence for millennia. It was ...

An author compares users' relationships to companies like Apple, Google and Microsoft to that of serfs asking feudal lords for protection.

Meng Guanglin: Based on the above statements, the feudal serf system under the integration of religion and politics was an even darker and crueler system than European serfdom in the Middle Ages.

Loads of free content exists on the Internet -- some professionally produced, and some not. Either way, big owners of media want to make money off it.

Much like the serfs, developers don’t have any say or ability to appeal any main chain decisions that may lead to their project’s demise. A medieval serf was “free” to farm the land they ...

And that's the point that Krugman should know. Sure, one in five working Americans has a non-compete clause or three in her employment contract. But they're only narrowly enforceable and what the ...

Demographics of a new feudalism One factor that made California such a disruptive economic, cultural and political force was its large percentage of people hailing from elsewhere.