If you’re a human being who appreciates the finer things in life, like food and shelter, you might have noticed that things ...

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 ...

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 ...

LONDON, July 19 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Since the 1970s the average rate of growth in the world’s income per person has fallen from nearly 3% a year to under 1%. Economists scratch their heads at ...

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 ...

A defining feature of digital capitalism is the privatization of data and knowledge - resources that are, in fact, generated by the collective participation of billions of people.

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 ...

In the wake of his huge defeat on June 30, 2024, when 80 percent of voters rejected French “centrist” President Emmanuel Macron, he said he understood the French people’s anger. In the UK, ...

— -- The 2012 presidential election may be a referendum on President Obama's job performance, specifically his ability to improve an economy that continues to teeter along a dangerous edge. But ...

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 ...