In a bold new history, Sven Beckert traces the origins of our modern economy, from global port cities to the halls of power.

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 ...

In a new global history, capitalism is an inescapable vibe—responsible for everything, everywhere, all at once.

Capitalism, communism and socialism are economic and political systems that differ in their principles and organization. Capitalism emphasizes the private ownership of resources and the means of ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) While many people bandy around the term “capitalism,” it actually comes in many ...

Jay L. Zagorsky receives funding from the Ravi K. Mehrotra Institute. H. Sami Karaca receives funding from the Ravi K. Mehrotra Institute. Capitalism, communism and socialism are economic and ...