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 ...

Ever since Eric Williams published his book Capitalism and Slavery, which demonstrated to those more inclined to weigh ...

Discover how the peer-to-peer economy differs from traditional capitalism, emphasizing direct transactions without intermediaries for increased efficiency and innovation.

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 ...

Discover the key differences between mixed economic systems and pure capitalism, including government intervention, property ...

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 -- ...

In a recent Deseret News opinion piece, Jennifer Graham laments the fact that not one but two of her children might be socialists. And she’s not the only one worried about young people becoming ...

Billionaire U.N. climate envoy Michael Bloomerg published an opinion piece Tuesday in his eponymous Bloomberg publication that was highly critical of Republican state officials who have taken actions ...

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 ...

Chinese state capitalism blurs the relationship between commercial actors and the party-state in ways that have no direct comparison in market-oriented liberal democracies. While policymakers have ...

Why would a professor at Utah Valley University incorrectly claim that “today’s young people are quite aware of the capitalist hellscape they’re going through and they are turning to the vision of a ...

Democracy exists if and when a community organizes its self-governance around the full participation, on an equal basis, of all the members of the community. Its other, autocracy, exists when a ...