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

Sven Beckert, a Harvard professor, has written a very long history of capitalism. As its subtitle suggests, ‘Capitalism: A ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new book called "Ages of American Capitalism" explores the Federal Reserve's role and other dimensions of economic history in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Discover the philosophy of Freeganism—living with minimal capitalism. Explore its history, lifestyle practices, and impact on ...

If the senses have a history, as Karl Marx wrote, then that history is inseparable from the development of capitalism, which has both taken advantage of the senses and influenced how sensory ...

I regard my hometown of Palo Alto — once a sleepy middle-class suburb, now Silicon Valley’s globally renowned epicenter — with a mix of ambivalence and affection. Malcolm Harris, the author of the 700 ...