Capitalism: It's worth understanding how it actually works. Peter Dazeley / Getty Images Fifty years ago, capitalism in the West was based on manufacturing which provided well-paid, lifelong jobs and ...

Delegates at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum talk a lot about the world's problems, but there is little concrete action. (Photo by LUDOVIC MARIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) Just before ...

The Wealth of a Nation: Institutional Foundations of English Capitalism, by Geoffrey M. Hodgson, Princeton University Press, 304 pages, $39.95 A galaxy of brilliant scholars have tried to account for ...

This is the final Modern CEO of the year. Thank you for reading, and happy holidays. See you on January 8, 2024. At your multigenerational holiday gatherings this week, you may discover wildly varying ...

Before we talk about the role of crisis phenomena in the emergence of modern wars, in our view it is important to note that wars actually arise, firstly, from the nature of the ruling mechanism “THE ...

Michael C. Jensen, an economist and Harvard Business School professor whose evangelizing for stock options, golden parachutes and leveraged buyouts helped reshape modern capitalism and empower Wall ...

Colombian President Gustavo Francisco Petro Urrego spoke at the World Economic Forum (WEF) held in Davos, Switzerland about how modern capitalism may doom humanity. Petro discussed other members of ...

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 ...

Historical projects, more often than not projects of conquest and domination, are often forced to assume new forms to protect their hegemony. No new historical development ever jumps on the world ...

While some local Republicans seem to see me a some sort of beady-eyed Bolshevik, I prefer to see myself as rather conservative. I believe in personal and fiscal responsibility, in the right of ...