Around the world, people are struggling. Rates of anxiety, depression, loneliness, and burnout are on the rise. While these may seem like unrelated phenomena, a recent paper takes the position that ...

For longtime Citi banker Jay Collins, the rise of AI and robotics represents a threat to the future of capitalism that can't be ignored. Collins, who is Citi's group chairman of the public sector, has ...

America's budget deficit is approximately $1.8 trillion—about 6 percent of gross domestic product (GDP). This is a very high level of indebtedness, especially given that we are running these large ...

What does it truly mean to own something in today’s economy? In practice, most ownership is mediated. Stocks are held through brokers and custodians, real estate through mortgages and registries and ...

In the late 1800s, when the word “capitalism” began to be used to describe an economic system, it wasn’t meant as a compliment. One of the earliest uses was by the French socialist Louis Blanc, who ...

A conversation with Alyssa Battistoni about the essential and contradictory nature of capitalism to the environment and her new book Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature. The voluminous ...

In a bold new history, Sven Beckert traces the origins of our modern economy, from global port cities to the halls of power. Centuries ago, Beckert writes, investors traveled to remote corners of the ...

"To understand capitalism, we need to be able to see it." Sounds simple, sure. But when Sven Beckert shares this observation, just a few pages into Capitalism: A Global History, the Harvard professor ...

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 ...

Among the scourges of racial oppression, 17th-century Barbados was an island unto itself, a British colony that operated on its own insidious principles, turbo-charging vast wealth on the bodies of ...

The share of registered voters with positive views of capitalism has dropped under 50% for the first time in seven years of NBC News polling on the issue — a shift that comes as some democratic ...