Yanis Varoufakis grew up during the Greek dictatorship of 1967–1974. He later became an economics professor and was briefly Greek finance minister in 2015. His late father, a chemical engineer in a ...

Capitalism: A Global History by Sven Beckert looks beyond the cities to the coffee and cotton that fuelled a global market.

The central concept of Marx’s contribution to a critical understanding of the capitalist economic system – the entry point into his distinctive analysis – is “the surplus.” Today’s show is devoted to ...

In its present form, capitalism is not truly contributing to the well-being of humanity. That's why we need to reimagine ...

Somewhere between the church lobby coffee and the Sunday sermon, a fierce debate has taken root over whether following Jesus ...

Yesterday I claimed that most people on the left and right recognize that economics and morality can’t be safely quarantined from each other. But whereas those on the left usually start with questions ...

Market capitalism is under attack, coming from two separate assaults. As an economic system, it is criticized for deepening inequality and enriching a small group of elites. Simultaneously, the ...

A look at the ways Americans' confidence in capitalism has been eroding and what changes in our economy mean for your work and wealth. AI and robotics' threat to capitalism is coming fast and requires ...

A working paper from the World Economic Forum stated that “China’s private sector - which has been revving up since the global financial crisis - is now serving as the main driver of China’s economic ...

Just over a half-century ago, Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman, whose work inspired the “Chicago School” of economics, wrote in a famous essay in the New York Times: “There is one and ...

President Joe Biden’s stimulus packages do not fulfill his promise to “build back better.” We must demand more. Corporate capitalism’s disregard for the needs of workers, families and communities ...