Joseph Schumpeter famously summarized the achievement of capitalism in his 1942 book, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, ...

Trevor Jackson traces the “dumb, inhuman logic” of endless growth over hundreds of years, and gestures at a better world.

Sven Beckert isn’t here to judge capitalism, even though he just wrote a provocative, ambitious, 1,300-page book on its history. As he writes several times in the book (which this editor has read), he ...

The past several decades have been turbulent ones for the world system: the financial crisis, the rise of new middle powers ...

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 ...

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 ...

In today's bonus episode, Mary Childs talks with John Cassidy, a staff writer at The New Yorker, about his new book, "Capitalism and Its Critics: A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI." In ...

Unlike the propagandists that publish most of the textbooks that we brainwash our children with in the US, reality-based historians have oft observed that the history of civilization is a history of ...

There are at least two things a historian should do in a book billed as an environmental history of capitalism: Center the environment, and demonstrate an understanding of capitalism. In his new book, ...

Join Sven Beckert (Harvard) and Alessandro Stanziani (EHESS) to discuss their new books on the global history of capitalism: ‘Capitalism: A Global History’ and ‘Earth Capital: The Long History of ...

Palo Alto is haunted. “Unseen lineages of historical responsibility” lurk amidst the oak trees on Stanford’s campus and the sleek venture capital offices on Sand Hill Road, giving the town — and the ...