Jared Dillian is the editor and publisher of the Daily Dirtnap. An investment strategist at Mauldin Economics, he is author of "All the Evil of This World." He may have a stake in the areas he writes ...

Historian Sven Beckert on where the capitalist system came from, what keeps it alive, and what it would take to bring it down. The past several decades have been turbulent ones for the world system: ...

Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy begins “Anna Karenina” with, “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” The same, perhaps, can be said about functional and ...

Joseph Schumpeter famously summarized the achievement of capitalism in his 1942 book, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, ...

While I agree with the proposals laid out by by former Republican congressman Peter Smith in his op-ed “Community capitalism would strengthen markets and people” (Dec. 14, TribLIVE), I would call them ...

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 ...

Capitalism has lifted more people out of poverty than any other economic system in history. The Communist Party of China proved this. While maintaining its communist political structure, China ...

Black Americans have long had significantly lower wages and household wealth than White Americans. The roots of these inequities trace back to the central role slave labor once played in the nation’s ...

Back in 2017, “late capitalism” was flourishing on Twitter. At the time, The Atlantic researched the origin and use of the phrase and found it was used to describe the excesses resulting from a ...