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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

No book has done more than Capital to explain the way the world works. Only a few centuries old, capitalism’s unprecedented mode of producing for human needs and generating wealth shapes present and ...

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

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 ...