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 ...

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

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

The Australian economy and financial system are being drawn ever more rapidly into the gathering storm in international markets, according to warnings from some leading figures in the financial world.

The standard story of globalization taught in business schools and assumed in boardrooms hails the success of free trade: It erased borders and freed capital, ushering in three decades of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Right from his near-miraculous reelection to the White House as the 47th President of the United States of America, a possibility that appeared remote given the perceived threat he constituted to that ...

Many of the people most affected by what we talk about here will never come to this conference,” Larry Fink said at the World ...

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 ...