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

As thinkers like Adorno understood generations ago, molding and hijacking desire is an essential aspect of modern capitalism. The surveillance capitalism might be using powerful new means, but it is ...

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

In 2014, the French economist Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century became an international sensation, reshaping the inequality debate and launching its author into superstardom.

As a 45-year-old who just left his job, I read George Soros's assessment of the world economy with concern ("The Crisis of Global Capitalism," The World Economy, Feb. 1). Soros predicts that Thailand ...

Sven Beckert’s doorstop of a book is supremely ambitious, an insightful and well-illustrated history by the Harvard historian who has been a pioneer in the creation of new narratives exploring how an ...

As the impeachment trial of President Trump comes to an end, many are asking themselves, what was this about? Is it about stopping an authoritarian president from abusing presidential power, or is ...

The groundbreaking 1970 book American Health Empire reported that health care conglomerates had jelled into a profit-making system notable for inflicting chaos on sick people. Someday, the authors ...

Global Capitalism: Live Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff. In connection with Wolff’s discussion of the main topic, he also covers: Libertarianism and socialism, Anti-capitalism and socialism, ...

Capitalism will be examined from the inside out during the daylong conference, the Cultures of Capitalism: Crisis of Confidence and New Directions, at Rochester Institute of Technology on Thursday, ...

The Spartacists’ central assertion is that globalization is nothing more than a propaganda campaign aimed at intimidating the working class. Accordingly, they maintain that, insofar as changes have ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The psychology of success and wealth and the power of capitalism. Leftist intellectuals were disappointed when the global ...