The rise of capitalism as an economic and social system has also coincided with its rapid transformation of nature. Wage ...

Business Insider spoke to readers in their 20s to 80s about what capitalism means to them and why some of them are rethinking ...

Henry Ford paid good wages to his employees, so that they and their families could afford to buy his cars. In many businesses ...

Something much deeper than the price of eggs was at work when voters re-elected President Trump last year. Most Americans were unhappy with the country’s direction; they still are. Last month, 59 ...

Capitalism recognizes individual effort, private ownership, and the pursuit of financial independence through hard work, innovation and competition. Unregulated savage capitalism prioritizes profit ...

Sven Beckert, a Harvard professor, has written a very long history of capitalism. As its subtitle suggests, ‘Capitalism: A Global History’ covers all of the inhabited world and spans a millennium, ...

In a recent essay in The Nation, Wendy Brown, a political theorist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., contends that Karl Marx’s Capital is unrivaled in its explanatory power ...

July 12, 2025 Updated Sun., July 13, 2025 at 5:08 p.m. Andrew Kassoy, cofounder of B Lab, a nonprofit network whose lofty mission is “transforming the global economy to benefit all people, communities ...

In 11 wide-ranging chapters covering history, social policy and the economy, David Matthews grounds his thesis in the following. Anti-capitalist reforms protect the working class from the market, help ...

If democracy is to endure, it must tame capitalism, not merely coexist with it.

According to John Cassidy’s century-spanning history Capitalism and Its Critics, the system lives on because of its antagonists. A Social Democratic leaflet against capitalism, 1905. In 2008, on the ...

Few words stir up more emotion in American politics than socialism. How many times have you heard someone yell out, "you're a socialist!" For some, it evokes images of equality and shared prosperity.