The Harvard professor provides a ceaseless flow of startling details in this exhaustively researched, 1000-year account ...

Discover the key differences between mixed economic systems and pure capitalism, including government intervention, property ...

Capitalism: A Global History’ by Sven Beckert “Any book about capitalism that begins almost 900 years ago in the port city of ...

Market capitalism is under attack, coming from two separate assaults. As an economic system, it is criticized for deepening inequality and enriching a small group of elites. Simultaneously, the ...

People aren’t respecting capitalism. The twist is that this isn’t necessarily capitalism’s fault.

The first half of this week’s episode of Economic Update features a discussion by Professor Wolff on the parallels of declining capitalism in the UK and the U.S. and how the denials of the systemic ...

In 2026, America will mark a remarkable convergence of anniversaries. It will be the 250th anniversary of Adam Smith’s The ...

Yesterday I claimed that most people on the left and right recognize that economics and morality can’t be safely quarantined from each other. But whereas those on the left usually start with questions ...

In the brilliant Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, economist Joseph Schumpeter argues that capitalism’s economic success, paradoxically, eventually undermines its necessary social foundations.

Discover how the Nordic model blends capitalism and social welfare, compared to the U.S. system, with insights on taxation, social services, and economic efficiency.

Presidential candidates and the media keep telling people "it's immoral" that a few rich people have so much more money than everyone else. They talk as if it doesn't matter what the rich did to get ...