Its more than 1,000 pages require sustained focus and stamina but it should not languish unread on dusty shelves ...

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 ...

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 dominant mode of socialist analysis of contemporary capitalism very often focuses on its corruption or decay through financialization, monopolization, deregulation, or corporate influence over ...

Capitalism has lifted more people out of poverty than any other economic system in history. The Communist Party of China proved this. While maintaining its communist political structure, China ...

Introduction -- Book one: The age of commerce, 1660-1860. Preface: Commerce ; Mercantilism ; Organic economy, household economy ; Republican political economy ; Capitalism and the democracy ; ...

Average people view New York City as a dumpster fire with an oppressive government and rampant crime. They are spot on. Today’s version of the city is a mess because of tax-and-spend city (and state) ...

According to John Cassidy’s century-spanning history Capitalism and Its Critics, the system lives on because of its antagonists. A Social Democratic leaflet against capitalism, 1905. In 2008, on the ...

In September, 1639, John Winthrop, the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, recorded in his journal a dreadful tale of Puritan true crime. One Robert Keayne had prospered as a London merchant ...

Cassidy, a staff writer at the New Yorker, is the author of Capitalism and Its Critics: A Battle of Ideas in the Modern World ...

In fact, those companies’ stock buybacks show what’s right with the American economy. If General Electric had invested more money in its own declining businesses, it would have lost more money for its ...