Corporate crisis

Housing blarney

Shareholder value and stock options for senior managers have ruled big business since the 1990s. But they have led to costly mistakes and endless scandals

Tacit collusion

Daniel Dafoe on Railtrack

Corporate eugenics

A bad time for pundits

It's not terrorists that have threatened the economy so much as the failings in the financial system

When foreign financiers stripped London of its snob class, the money woke up. But to stay slick, the city needs to regain an old honour system

Alan Greenspan, the second most powerful man in the US, adheres to the "radical capitalist" of Ayn Rand. But by following rather than leading the markets he has created a bubble