Discover how capitalism and free market economies differ and overlap, influencing nations to blend these systems for economic growth and stability.

Discover how government impacts capitalism, regulation, and free markets. Explore different economic theories and their views ...

America is a nation at war with its mythologies. For all the electoral postmortems about the desire for economic change, what’s unsurprisingly absent is what seems, to me, an obvious omission: an ...

Ever since Eric Williams published his book Capitalism and Slavery, which demonstrated to those more inclined to weigh evidence rather than ideology that slavery was a crucial prop to the Industrial ...

NMAHMAI copy Purchased from the NMAH Library Endowment. Foreword / by Marion Nestle -- Introduction : Do foodies need to understand capitalism? -- How our capitalist food system came to be -- Food, a ...

China's strategic control over refining and processing is reshaping international commerce. The conflict between state ...

So often we take the meaning of terms for granted without knowing their complicated histories and changing definitions. “Capitalism” is one such example. In his new book, Capitalism: The Story Behind ...

Sianne Ngai’s Theory of the Gimmick continues her project of looking at how aesthetic categories shape labor, value, and everyday experience. Sianne Ngai. (Courtesy of Harvard University Press) Over ...

What will it take to re-imagine capitalism? Ten steps are necessary. The first is to recognize the scale and depth of the crisis that capitalism faces: “the increasing income and wealth gap, the ...

The rise of capitalism as an economic and social system has also coincided with its rapid transformation of nature. Wage labor and investment in the hope of return has dammed rivers, bored through ...