Sven Beckert has spent nearly a decade trying to understand the 1,000-year-old thing that capitalism is. "This is 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 ...

As thinkers like Adorno understood generations ago, molding and hijacking desire is an essential aspect of modern capitalism. The surveillance capitalism might be using powerful new means, but it is ...

The universal rule of capital explains why national leaders can’t solve national problems—and end up being hated by voters as pathetic failures.

In 2014, the French economist Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century became an international sensation, reshaping the inequality debate and launching its author into superstardom.

As the impeachment trial of President Trump comes to an end, many are asking themselves, what was this about? Is it about stopping an authoritarian president from abusing presidential power, or is ...

Leftist intellectuals were disappointed when the global financial crisis of 2008/2009 did not lead to the collapse of capitalism. They are now pinning their hopes on the coronavirus to create their ...

Many of the people most affected by what we talk about here will never come to this conference,” Larry Fink said at the World ...

As the global coronavirus public health and economic crisis of 2020 approaches the international workers’ day May 1 st, let us consider 23 ways in which it is a crisis of and by capital and its class ...

Cheap Chinese products, like motorcycles that sell for only $440, are flooding China’s southern neighbors and consumers in Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia are laying out the welcome mat. The ...

Refugee Run is an immersive theatrical experience at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in which billionaires and other global elites pretend to be refugees for a little over an hour. In ...