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

Many of the people most affected by what we talk about here will never come to this conference,” Larry Fink said at the World ...

Harvard historian Sven Beckert’s 1,300-page Capitalism: A Global History relentlessly critiques capitalism’s alleged failings. But if capitalism is so flawed, why does it stand alone as the world’s ...

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

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 ...

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

Capitalism is often treated as a timeless backdrop to modern life, a system that simply emerged in Europe and then swept the globe by force of inevitability. A new global history by Harvard historian ...

If interest rates become policy decisions, what survives may look less like capitalism and more like permanent crisis management.

Mussolini won early support from the large landowners of the Po Valley, and came to power at the invitation of King Victor Emmanuel III; Hitler allied himself with the army and big business to win the ...

That two-word phrase is a reminder — a reminder to politicians and officeholders to let us live our lives the way we want to live, and a reminder that we must teach the next generations of the virtues ...

India is celebrating an AI gold rush for efficiency and growth, but this AI is fed by a rapidly expanding surveillance ...