This project is personal for Mattei, given her family history, in which challenging capitalism and fascism were not just ...

Robert Kurz discusses his book, The Black Book of Capitalism, which he describes as a "radical-critical history of modernization since the 18th century", summarizes his views on "class struggle" in ...

As Karl Marx noted in many of his works, every technological leap within the capitalist system does not lead to human liberation but to the reproduction of class domination by more advanced means.

There's one narrative about the rise of Silicon Valley in Palo Alto, Calif. - that it's a place where the entrepreneurial spirit roams free, nurtured by fine schools and open minds, whose progeny go ...

Capitalism is increasingly unpopular, especially in Europe. This intriguing book opens and closes with a spirited dialogue between a young woman skeptical of capitalism and her father, Corneo, an ...

Sven Beckert has spent nearly a decade trying to understand the 1,000-year-old thing that capitalism is. “This is a ...

Speculative fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin famously said, “We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable — but then, so did the divine right of kings.” How can we imagine cutting through the ...

Capitalism is often treated as a timeless backdrop to modern life, a system that simply emerged in Europe and then swept the globe by force of inevitability. A new global history by Harvard historian ...

In the 1940s, economist Friedrich Hayek said in his book, “The Road to Serfdom,” that the road to serfdom was socialism. Economist Joseph Schumpeter, in “Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy,” feared ...

As I’ve written before, the novel coronavirus pandemic has exposed many of the structural weaknesses in capitalism. In order to rationalize the free market ideology that undergirds capitalist systems, ...