But Roenneberg sees this not so much as a by-product of industrial capitalism as a quirk of human physiology.

NEWYORKER: Up All Night

Is it that humane, heavy-industrial capitalism has declined into alienating and impersonal consumerism?

ECONOMIST: American men

Japan had charged into the main arena of industrial capitalism, declaring its supremacy in autos, ships, steel and the like.

FORBES: Digital rules

The car was at the heart of the growth of industrial capitalism, and proved a huge boon for personal freedom.

ECONOMIST: A Survey of the 20th Century

The secret of Disney's extraordinary influence lay in his ability to hold up a mirror to the American people, and reflect their hopes and fears about the monumental forces that were reshaping their society, from the rise of industrial capitalism to the spread of scientific thinking.

ECONOMIST: America��s sorcerer

This is where a new breed of post-Industrial micro-capitalism is taking root.

FORBES: Kubler-Ross and #OccupyWallStreet

They promised to keep the benefits of the industrial economy that capitalism had created, while replacing the freedom that made it possible with a modern form of tribalism.

FORBES: The "On Your Own" Economy

Commercial banks traditionally the linchpins of German capitalism, and still among the country's biggest industrial shareholders are changing their behaviour too.

ECONOMIST: German companies

Mr Achleitner, who has preached Anglo-Saxon shareholder capitalism in Germany with missionary zeal, is expected to make Allianz's financial and industrial holdings sweat.

ECONOMIST: Dresdner Bank

An entrepreneurial group from Italy that saw the potential of the old Chrysler, and of a new Chrysler, took its own chance risked its own capital, its own finances, and actually its own potential survival on the idea that capitalism unleashed through the ingenuity and energy of Chrysler workers and products would restore an American industrial icon to greatness.

FORBES: Could Focus On Chrysler (Sans Clint) Win Romney Michigan?