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

Capitalism as an economic system has been around in various forms for over a thousand years and according to our featured guest this week, it keeps evolving. Join us for a lively and challenging ...

Sven Beckert, a Harvard professor, has written a very long history of capitalism. As its subtitle suggests, ‘Capitalism: A Global History’ covers all of the inhabited world and spans a millennium, ...

Economic collapse shattered Germany in the 1930s, allowing fascism to rise from the wreckage. Amid national humiliation and mass unemployment, Hitler exploited the public fear, redirected economic ...

Introduction -- A commercial republic: 1776-1860 -- The two Americas -- The triumph of capitalism: 1865-1914 -- The age of giants -- The revolt against laissez-faire -- The business of America is ...

One of the joys of Capitalism and Its Critics, John Cassidy’s unexpectedly lively romp through the two-and-a-half-century history of capitalism, is its fine sense for dramatic reversals. Nearly a ...

This project is personal for Mattei, given her family history, in which challenging capitalism and fascism were not just ...

Making markets -- The capitalist constitution / Woody Holton -- What was the great bull market? / Julia Ott -- The new york city fiscal crisis and the idea of the state / Kim Phillips-Fein -- ...

Ohio State Department of History professor Bartow Elmore has no problem tackling the environmental impact of major corporations. Elmore’s third book, “Country Capitalism” became available Tuesday and ...

Since the re-election of President Donald Trump, many prominent American corporations, including Amazon, Meta, and Target, have abandoned their diversity efforts just a few years after launching them ...

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 ...