In a bold new history, Sven Beckert traces the origins of our modern economy, from global port cities to the halls of power.

Mechanisation and automation have been called the Fourth Industrial Revolution. But these are not inevitable or neutral economic realities. They are political weapons of oppression under capitalism.

While scholars have illuminated bits and pieces of this immense narrative, Beckert’s massive volume brings it together with impeccable authority and perspicacity.

The New Yorker's John Cassidy joins Morning Joe to discuss his new book 'Capitalism and Its Critics: A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI'.July 2, 2025 Lawrence: Trump is lost in his own ...

With its deep roots and global scope, the capitalist system provides the framework for our lives--a framework of constant change, sometimes measured and predictable, sometimes drastic and out of ...

On April 15, AEI’s Yuval Levin and Adam J. White hosted a symposium evaluating the American Revolution’s relationship to capitalism and free enterprise. The Heritage Foundation’s Chris DeMuth ...

Democratic capitalism is a system that marries liberal democracy and free-market capitalism. This union creates tensions, and requires balancing competing aims. But this tension is healthy, not ...

WHEN I FIRST started writing about the rise of “stakeholder capitalism” in corporate America—and its close cousin, the ESG (environmental, social and governance) movement in capital markets—I had to ...

Rifkin, who has long studied how Europe is reducing its dependence on fossil fuel energies (and how the U.S. is failing to keep up), makes an important, impeccably argued call for wide-scale societal ...

K-12 standardized test scores tanked across Colorado amid the pandemic’s lengthy school shutdown and have yet to climb back to even pre-COVID levels. And those levels were abysmal to begin with.