Available in English Website www.capx.co | Founded June 21, 2014 | |
Headquarters Westminster, London, United Kingdom Key people Tim Knox (Director)
Robert Colvile (Editor) Parent Centre for Policy Studies | ||
CapX is a British online news website and aggregator founded by the Centre for Policy Studies, and features columnists and contributors such as Tim Montgomerie, Daniel Hannan and V. S. Naipaul. The site offers original content and aggregated news and blogs, and features opinion on politics, economics, and business issues.
Contents
CapX was launched on June 21, 2014 as a commentary outlet to promote "democratic capitalism" and support innovation, competition, free trade, good governance and liberty. It aggregates and selects news from 3.5 million blogs, academic journals and mainstream media. It publishes a spectrum of pro-market authors.
History
CapX was founded by the Centre for Policy Studies on June 21, 2014 in collaboration with Signal Media. On January 28, 2015 a new site was launched for CapX. Lord Saatchi, chairman of the Centre for Policy Studies, commented on its launch, "CapX, the first global digital think tank, has been designed to show how popular capitalism can work to the benefit of all. We hope it will make a difference."
Contributors
In addition to columns by Iain Martin and a group of contributors such as Tim Montgomerie, Daniel Hannan, Philippe Legrain, and Paul Collier, CapX has many authors—from politicians and campaigners to academics and policy experts—who contribute on a wide range of topics. Specialist contributors include Indian economist Deepak Lal and Islamic economics specialist Jeff Halevy.
Political views
CapX is broadly on the centre-right of the political spectrum, but welcomes contributions on the future of capitalism from a wide range of thinkers, including those from the centre-left. In 2015, the then editor Iain Martin stated that CapX is "for competition because it drives innovation, creates wealth and increases prosperity." CapX supports innovation, competition, free trade, facilitative government and liberty, and is opposed to cronyism, corporatism and restrictive markets. Conservative politician Paul Goodman wrote on the political website ConservativeHome in October 2014, recommending that readers should add CapX to their reading list.
Funding
The Centre for Policy Studies has received funding for the project from the Templeton Religion Trust and the Rising Tide Foundation.