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

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We break down what capitalism actually does in the real world. Capitalism rewards what people with money want, not what everyone needs. When wealth is widely shared, the system produces middle class ...

Last week, two things happened that may shed some light on where American capitalism is heading. First, Tesla’s board caved in to Elon Musk’s demand that he get a pay package of $1 trillion (if he ...

Explore how socialist market economies operate in China, Cuba, and North Korea, balancing state control and market elements ...

This statement was distributed to a protest of tens of thousands of young people against the founding of the youth organization of the AfD in Giessen on November 29. Tens of thousands are ...

In September, 1639, John Winthrop, the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, recorded in his journal a dreadful tale of Puritan true crime. One Robert Keayne had prospered as a London merchant ...