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

Capitalism has long been heralded by many economists as the best economic system around, rewarding — and therefore encouraging — competition and innovation, creating wealth, stimulating growth and ...

Why capitalism remains America’s greatest competitive advantage, how science and markets fueled prosperity, and why the ...

Ohio State Department of History professor Bartow Elmore has no problem tackling the environmental impact of major corporations. Elmore’s third book, “Country Capitalism” became available Tuesday and ...

Introduction -- Book one: The age of commerce, 1660-1860. Preface: Commerce ; Mercantilism ; Organic economy, household economy ; Republican political economy ; Capitalism and the democracy ; ...

High school teachers say that teaching capitalism has become increasingly politicized, with students drawn to figures like ...

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 ...

Introduction. Slavery's capitalism / Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman -- Part 1. Plantation technologies. Toward a political economy of slave labor : hands, whipping-machines, and modern power / Edward E ...

It’s unlikely that reading a book—or reading at all, let alone an infinite scroll or hardback doorstopper—will ever be a popular way to ring in a new year. But 2025 gave us a tome worthy of such ...

Centuries of management practice were built on cruelty and exploitation. But history also offers a countercurrent – leaders ...

Is China just another case of modern industrial development? It is tempting to talk about the country’s economic and social ...

Why do people, especially college students, continue to praise communism and socialism when we've all seen what happens?