First, please take a look at this note. did capitalism give birth to socialism?Capitalism was conceived by Adam Smith, and ...

The 'No Debt, No Money' ParadigmWhen we think of a bank, the image of a giant vault comes to mind. Deposits brought in by ...

Historian Sven Beckert on where the capitalist system came from, what keeps it alive, and what it would take to bring it down. The past several decades have been turbulent ones for the world system: ...

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 ...

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The richest man in Arabia -- Markets without government -- Family matters -- A mosque, a market, and a war -- Muhammad's household finances -- Muhammad's executive office -- Muhammadan taxation -- ...

Without a doubt, Marx is the most famous proponent of the thesis that capitalism contains the seeds of its own destruction. But what of sympathetic observers of capitalism? Joseph Schumpeter was ...

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 ...

What will it take to re-imagine capitalism? Ten steps are necessary. The first is to recognize the scale and depth of the crisis that capitalism faces: “the increasing income and wealth gap, the ...

hile in the history of history no economic system has lifted more people out of poverty, solved for more of life’s ills, and created more prosperity, opportunity, and socio-cultural benefit than ...