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

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer leaves 10 Downing Street to attend Prime Minister Questions, January 7, 2026, in London. Credit: Alberto Pezzali/AP Photo The other day, the Financial Times ran a ...

Amid the continued surge on Wall Street, albeit with fluctuations, and global growth coming in as forecast at more than 3 percent, there are warnings that all may not be as it seems. One such warning ...

The Biscoff Betrayal explores how global brands risk losing authenticity when adapting to new markets, examining brand ...

If democracy is to endure, it must tame capitalism, not merely coexist with it.

Capitalism is an efficient economic system because it works directly off consumer needs and delivers supply where there is demand in pursuit of profit. The question is not whether capitalism works, ...

Sven Beckert, a Harvard professor, has written a very long history of capitalism. As its subtitle suggests, ‘Capitalism: A ...

Over and over, while under the British, then French and now American education systems, I find myself coming back to Amin.

Why do some corporations experience record profits during global emergencies? The answer lies in a set of incentives baked ...

America’s president, Donald Trump, is taking things further. He sees companies as a useful tool to enhance state power. He ...

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 Angela Davis celebrates her 82nd birthday Monday (Jan. 26), The Root honors the living legacy of the revolutionary ...