Carnival of the Capitalists

Topics

This remains the original extended description of what CotC encompasses, without any changes, as it still seems to fit:

Posts on business, management, marketing, accounting, finance, economics, sales, capitalism; anything of that nature that logically fits something called “Carnival of the Capitalists.”

Here is an extended list of topics that would be included in the above, more concise description (… means “and so forth” in the context below):

Business - Discussion of news, of particular companies or industries, starting and running a business, the challenges facing business, lauding a business or product you admire or vice-versa, suggesting a new idea for a business to pursue…

Management - Management practices good and bad, issues in business/management education, structural issues, recruiting, choosing, paying, etc. of management personnel…

Accounting and finance - Accounting practices in reality and theory, FASB rulings proposed and passed, SEC rules and consequences, GAAP, GAAS, auditing, accounting fraud, fiduciary issues, raising capital, companies in financial trouble…

Human resources - HR management issues, recruitment, dealing with HR and other hiring figures or recruiters from the outside trying to get in, union issues, pay and benefits, the labor market and its impact on businesses or industries, hiring practices and abuses, education and preparation of people for the work force or problems with same, training…

Taxes and regulations - Discussion of proposed new or existing ones and their impact, costs and benefits in the business world, issues with preparation and filing, compliance costs, opportunity costs where new businesses or efforts might be thwarted…

Economics - Monetary policy and other economic issues and their affect on business, the market, the labor market, economic trends, discussion of recession/depression and existence, causes, solutions to same…

Marketing and sales - Advertising, ads or campaigns that are clever or annoying, what you’d do if you were in the shoes of marketing for a company, challenges to selling in a certain way or industry or in light of regulatory changes, sales and marketing ideas and tips discussed…

People - Discussion of people in the world of business and economics past or present…

Blogging for Business - Blogging as a business tool, examples, failures, successes, trends…

The Market - Stock, bond, and commodities markets, regulatory and insuring agencies, trading and market management practices, IPO issues and practices, discussion of any specific stock or IPO past or anticipated…

Capitalism and Entrepreneurship - Theory of capitalism, critique of pure capitalism, discussion of how close we’ve ever come to pure capitalism, growth or decrease of capitalism and free markets around the world, entrepreneurial people, issues, news, ideas, motivations, innovations…

Legal issues in commerce - Intellectual property, business law, liability issues and their impact on business, proposed or existing laws and their impact on business and the economy…

What, then, is off-topic? Everything else, including but not limited to:

Politics - Except to the degree that the political sphere might impinge on economics, business, and any discussion or critique of capitalism in theory or as a philosophy.

Blogging - If it’s not pretty specific to blogging as a business tool, then what you need is a Carnival of Blogging (or perhaps Carnival of Navel Gazing).

Personal Finance - Generally when we talk “finance” as relates to CotC, we’re talking business finance, not personal finance.

Personal Advice - Even if it borders on financial, see above, it doesn’t fall under business and economics.

And so forth. There’s no way we can attempt to list everything that would count as off-topic here.

On a related topic, ironically, some would assume blogs that are affiliated with businesses too closely should summarily have any submissions excluded. Not so. If they have a meaningful, quality post, then the blog’s lineage or sponsorship doesn’t matter.