For decades, the Nordic countries have occupied a special place in the global political imagination. Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden are routinely held up as proof that capitalism can be tamed: ...

And Cuban would likely agree, but not for the reason you might think. As Cuban said on Adam Grant’s podcast, Re:Thinking: People don’t fully understand the definition of capitalism. Capitalism isn’t ...

Mo Gawdat warns that AI disrupts capitalism, threatening jobs and wages. Capitalism relies on human labor, but AI threatens that foundation, he argues. Gawdat suggests AI could lead to economic ...

Speaking to Euronews after his panel at Web Summit Qatar, the former Greek finance minister said the world could be heading toward another crisis like 2008, driven by the rise of stablecoins and ...

Sanjai Bhagat, Ph.D., is a professor at the University of Colorado, serves on corporate boards, and is the author of “Financial Crisis, Corporate Governance, and Bank Capital.” Capitalism versus ...

Warren Buffett is famous for many reasons, including his simple and timeless wisdom, and this quote is no exception. Often attributed to Buffett and quoted in Tom Rath’s Strengths-Based Leadership, ...

1776 was a watershed year, and not only because America’s Founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence in July, igniting a political revolution that sent democracy sweeping across the globe ...

America's budget deficit is approximately $1.8 trillion—about 6 percent of gross domestic product (GDP). This is a very high level of indebtedness, especially given that we are running these large ...

With the world in mortal crisis throughout the 1930s, the leading capitalist intellectuals of the day met in a series of fraught conferences. Horrified by the advances of totalitarianism, economists ...

A conversation with Alyssa Battistoni about the essential and contradictory nature of capitalism to the environment and her new book Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature. The voluminous ...

In a bold new history, Sven Beckert traces the origins of our modern economy, from global port cities to the halls of power. Centuries ago, Beckert writes, investors traveled to remote corners of the ...

"To understand capitalism, we need to be able to see it." Sounds simple, sure. But when Sven Beckert shares this observation, just a few pages into Capitalism: A Global History, the Harvard professor ...