Giving more column inches to Nate Silver after he’s been showered with such a charitable amount of attention this week isn’t ideal, I know. After issuing a rash of half-baked tweets to the ...

Election results in Britain and Australia point to a deeper crisis in the two-party system, as economic power drifts further ...

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Although the American economic system has undergone significant change since colonial times, there are identifiable threads running through the centuries-long narrative. Chief among these are the ...

To Thomas Carlyle, it was “one of the shabbiest gospels ever preached”. Adam Smith was an early fan, but was still suspicious of those who practised it. Rosa Luxemburg thought it fuelled imperialism ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. From Davos to Washington to America's high school classrooms, people are questioning the foundations ...

Harvard historian Sven Beckert’s new 1,300-page book, *Capitalism: A Global History*, offers a sweeping reinterpretation of capitalism’s origins, evolution, and global reach over nearly a millennium.

The term “late capitalism” seems to be everywhere as a trending meme – often used as a kind of shorthand to illustrate the absurdities of certain free market economies. On Twitter, you will find the ...

If capitalism had been overthrown as quickly as Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels had at first expected, John Cassidy’s sprawling “Capitalism and Its Critics” would have been shorter and easier to write, ...

The reading public now has available a large number of books on the ills of our society and economy. Most of them use, as a focal point, something called “capitalism.” The term began life as an ...

Though admirable as a humanist ideal, study after study has shown that in the real world socialism doesn’t work very well. Sadly, it leaves the work force insufficiently motivated to put forth its ...