Shopping malls are in trouble, as are the commercial mortgage-backed securities built around them. Can another 2008 be averted?

The explanation may have to do with the gift economy.

Online shopping drastically reduces the significance of physical stores. Where did the physical retail model come from to begin with?

Is the shopping mall a thing of the past? A look at how the suburbs helped to create the mall--and what is now killing those same shopping centers.

On the film portrayals of women that equate consumption and love.