Capitalism has long been heralded by many economists as the best economic system around, rewarding — and therefore encouraging — competition and innovation, creating wealth, stimulating growth and ...

In Escape From Capitalism, economist Clara Mattei offers an uncompromising defense of a Marxist account of society and makes the case for democratic control of the economy. Review of Escape From ...

Modern American capitalism makes rich corporate titans massively richer but leaves the rest of us behind. The economically irrational but psychologically rational objective of preserving their elitist ...

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 ...

From its beginnings, the capitalist economic system produced both critics and celebrants, those who felt victimized and those who felt blessed. Where victims and critics developed analyses, demands, ...

Capitalism is a distinctive mode of economic organization, one that emerged relatively recently in human history. What ...

The ideas here have been expanded in The Problématique of State Capitalism as part of the book The Spectre of State Capitalism with Adam D Dixon (2023) available via Open Access here. At the risk of ...

The wreckage of the postwar economy of broad prosperity, intensified by the Democratic embrace of neoliberalism by Presidents Carter, Clinton, and Obama, created the backlash that led directly to ...