How did the medieval world give birth to our modern system of capitalist accumulation and competition? A new book by Matthew Costa, a Marxist historian and mandarin at New South Wales’s treasury, ...

If two centuries seems like a long time to get born, the point is that capitalism is a process, and by the 19th century, ...

Sven Beckert’s Capitalism: A Global History ranges impressively over time and space, from medieval Yemen to modern-day Cambodia. But we need a clearer political economy of capitalism to make sense of ...

Sven Beckert isn’t here to judge capitalism, even though he just wrote a provocative, ambitious, 1,300-page book on its history. As he writes several times in the book (which this editor has read), he ...

With Agreed-Upon Deportation, Trump DOJ Succeeds in First-Ever Resort to Secret Court Unions Once Again Using Political Power to Keep Workers Ignorant of Their Rights Should Scientists Decide Policies ...

Introduction -- Book one: The age of commerce, 1660-1860. Preface: Commerce ; Mercantilism ; Organic economy, household economy ; Republican political economy ; Capitalism and the democracy ; ...

Capitalism is packed with information and historical insights into the thousand pages. This detailed text is similar to that found in the Encyclopaedia Britanica volumes that always made one curious ...

AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman. As we continue our look at Big Tech and the internet, we’re joined by author Malcolm Harris. He has ...