Last Friday, I spoke on a panel at NYU on political theorist Alyssa Battistoni’s new book Free Gifts: Capitalism and the ...

As an economic theory, capitalism has always rested upon a questionable premise. In practice, it has undergone such governmental modification that it hardly resembles what its theory originally ...

Beckert's book, a sweeping 1,300-page history, synthesizes bits and pieces of the academic literature to recount the ...

Why are so many modern capitalist societies addicted to militarism? The theory of monopoly capitalism claims that addiction to militarism is no accident. It flows from deep structural properties of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I work to reduce regulation and expose its enormous costs. Capitalism has a bad reputation. Many people see it as corrupt, ...

For a year-end read, try Harvard historian Sven Beckert's new book, ‘Capitalism: A Global History.’ It traces the global ...

Has America just hit an inflection point in the evolution of capitalism? And, as America changes, will the world? We don't often acknowledge it but, since its birth in the Calvinist cultures of ...

Replacement theory has allegedly been used as a motive for killing Hispanics at a Wal-Mart in El Paso, Jewish worshippers at a Pittsburgh Synagogue, and African-American shoppers, store workers and a ...

Just as Trump figured out how to energize the frustration of enough voters to win the presidency, it is likely we will see a populist nominated on the Democratic side. A Democratic president and ...

"So often in the past there has been a division between left and right, between capitalists and communists or socialists, and especially in the Americas, that’s been a big debate," Obama said during a ...