Over the past four decades, a pervasive pessimism has taken hold on the Left regarding the prospects for meaningful ...

American enthusiasm for capitalism is slipping, especially among Democrats. That’s the headline from a new Gallup poll out this week. Gallup has been asking Americans how they feel about capitalism ...

Thanks to massive government intervention, modern capitalism hardly reflects the free market economy built up by ...

This year marks the 250th anniversary of "The Wealth of Nations"—and capitalism is facing a legitimacy crisis. What comes ...

In capitalist societies, the free market (and, therefore, supply and demand) determines production and pricing with little government intervention. In socialist economies, governments control ...

One of the joys of Capitalism and Its Critics, John Cassidy’s unexpectedly lively romp through the two-and-a-half-century history of capitalism, is its fine sense for dramatic reversals. Nearly a ...

From its beginnings, the capitalist economic system produced both critics and celebrants, those who felt victimized and those who felt blessed. Where victims and critics developed analyses, demands, ...

Capitalism, communism and socialism are economic and political systems that differ in their principles and organization. Capitalism emphasizes the private ownership of resources and the means of ...

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 ...

The term state capitalism does not have a single definition that is used with consistency and uniformity. The definitions that have been used depend on the context of the discussion, both historically ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By ZEKE MILLER, STEVE PEOPLES and JOSH BOAK PITTSBURGH (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday pledged to build an economy that is both pro-business ...

According to John Cassidy’s century-spanning history Capitalism and Its Critics, the system lives on because of its antagonists. A Social Democratic leaflet against capitalism, 1905. In 2008, on the ...