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

Bruce S. Hall is an associate history professor at the University of California Berkeley whose lecture about capitalism in 19th-century Timbuktu is sponsored by the prestigious Fusco Distinguished ...

Capitalism: A Global History, by Sven Beckert, Penguin Press, 1,344 pages, $49 Adam Smith, widely considered the first major ...

Subscribe to BizTimes Daily – Local news about the people, companies and issues that impact business in Milwaukee and Southeast Wisconsin. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the Lynde and Harry ...

In September, 1639, John Winthrop, the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, recorded in his journal a dreadful tale of Puritan true crime. One Robert Keayne had prospered as a London merchant ...

Slavery and capitalism will be the topic of a Harvard University history professor's free lecture Friday at 7 p.m. in Loyola University' s Nunemaker Hall. Walter Johnson' s speech will be part of the ...

What does staggering income inequality mean for the future of America's economy and capitalism in general? Is there an economic model that would more equitably distribute wealth? What type of ...

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 ...

This year’s Benson Center Conservative Thought and Policy lecture series is devoted to the theme of “Capitalism and Ethics.” Our speakers explore the complex relationships between the two in American ...

Responding to Democratic concerns about income inequality from American capitalism and Republican opposition to greater immigration and international trade from a free market trading system, ...

The Socialist Equality Party (Australia) concluded a successful series of online lectures entitled “Why study the history of Trotskyism” last week. The events introduced an important layer of students ...