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 ...

Understanding biotechnology is impossible without considering capitalism, said Hallam Stevens, an assistant professor at Nanyang Technical University in Singapore, during a lecture Wednesday night. A ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

As the first decade of the twenty-first century draws to a close, American democratic capitalism is in crisis. The recent financial disaster and the ensuing recession, serious though they are, are ...

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, ...

According to John Cassidy’s century-spanning history Capitalism and Its Critics, the system lives on because of its antagonists. In 2008, on the precipice of the global financial crisis, the British ...