America is a nation at war with its mythologies. For all the electoral postmortems about the desire for economic change, what’s unsurprisingly absent is what seems, to me, an obvious omission: an ...

Ever since Eric Williams published his book Capitalism and Slavery, which demonstrated to those more inclined to weigh evidence rather than ideology that slavery was a crucial prop to the Industrial ...

No book has done more than Capital to explain the way the world works. Only a few centuries old, capitalism’s unprecedented mode of producing for human needs and generating wealth shapes present and ...

The financial impact varies dramatically based on income level and life circumstances. Fascism takes an entirely different ...

Fans of capitalism like to say it is democratic or that it supports democracy. Some have stretched language so far as to literally equate capitalism with democracy, using the terms interchangeably. No ...

How do we understand Global Capitalism and the World We Live In? Sven Beckert, Capitalism: a global history, Allen Lane £50.

NMAHMAI copy Purchased from the NMAH Library Endowment. Contents Foreword / by Marion Nestle -- Introduction : Do foodies need to understand capitalism? -- How our capitalist food system came to be -- ...

British sociologist Simon Clarke was one of the most sophisticated analysts of how and why capitalist systems descend into crisis. Clarke’s work on the contradictions of capitalism is a valuable guide ...