Joseph Schumpeter famously summarized the achievement of capitalism in his 1942 book, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, ...

The past several decades have been turbulent ones for the world system: the financial crisis, the rise of new middle powers ...

Economic collapse shattered Germany in the 1930s, allowing fascism to rise from the wreckage. Amid national humiliation and mass unemployment, Hitler exploited the public fear, redirected economic ...

A new history by Trevor Jackson argues that the economic system that transformed global living standards depends on endless ...

Introduction -- Book one: The age of commerce, 1660-1860. Preface: Commerce ; Mercantilism ; Organic economy, household economy ; Republican political economy ; Capitalism and the democracy ; ...

Sven Beckert isn’t here to judge capitalism, even though he just wrote a provocative, ambitious, 1,300-page book on its history. As he writes several times in the book (which this editor has read), he ...

Ohio State Department of History professor Bartow Elmore has no problem tackling the environmental impact of major corporations. Elmore’s third book, “Country Capitalism” became available Tuesday and ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

A Colorado history teacher who introduced a resolution that sought to "dismantle capitalism and replace it with a new, equitable economic system" on Tuesday announced a bid to win a seat in the ...

American enthusiasm for capitalism is slipping, especially among Democrats. That’s the headline from a new Gallup poll out this week. Gallup has been asking Americans how they feel about capitalism ...

People stand outside a Silicon Valley Bank branch in Santa Clara, Calif., on Friday, March 10, 2023. The Federal Reserve is scheduled Friday to release a highly anticipated review of its supervision ...