Although the American economic system has undergone significant change since colonial times, there are identifiable threads running through the centuries-long narrative. Chief among these are the ...

Money isn’t everything, but everything needs money. Some philosophers consider it to be an evil. Economists consider it a ...

Capitalism is often treated as a timeless backdrop to modern life, a system that simply emerged in Europe and then swept the globe by force of inevitability. A new global history by Harvard historian ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Capitalism, communism and socialism are economic and political systems that differ in their principles and organization.

The reading public now has available a large number of books on the ills of our society and economy. Most of them use, as a focal point, something called “capitalism.” The term began life as an ...

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Americans like to tell a familiar story about the last 40 years. It goes like this: In 1980, neoliberals took over. Markets were unleashed. Government shrank. Deregulation ran wild. Greed, inequality, ...

Nineteenth century socialists and radicals were animated by the belief that the labor of society, properly deployed, could usher in a society characterized by comfort, cooperation, and leisure.

Though admirable as a humanist ideal, study after study has shown that in the real world socialism doesn’t work very well. Sadly, it leaves the work force insufficiently motivated to put forth its ...