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 ...

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 ...

Absent a shift in our moral compass, our current form of free-market capitalism will transform U.S. society into a largely unrecognizable system defined by extreme inequality and rising poverty. Take ...

If capitalism had been overthrown as quickly as Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels had at first expected, John Cassidy’s sprawling “Capitalism and Its Critics” would have been shorter and easier to write, ...

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Jessica Mendoza: In the United States, the economic system is usually described ...

In her economic speech in Pittsburg last week, Vice President Kamala Harris declared, “I am a capitalist.” Earlier, she had told Wall Street and fashion titans (capitalists all) in the Hamptons that ...

Adam Hanieh will join us to discuss his newly-released book, Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market (Verso Books, 2024). This expansive history traces the hidden ...