Books & the Arts / In her new book, Alyssa Battistoni explores how nature came to be treated as a supposedly cost-free ...

Capitalism has long been heralded by many economists as the best economic system around, rewarding — and therefore encouraging — competition and innovation, creating wealth, stimulating growth and ...

The dominant mode of socialist analysis of contemporary capitalism very often focuses on its corruption or decay through ...

As OpenAI marks its tenth birthday in December 2025, it can celebrate becoming one of the world’s leading companies, worth perhaps as much as US$1 trillion (£750 billion). But it started as a ...

The left-wing's reluctance to confront powerful institutions and advocate for radical structural change has allowed systemic racism and capitalism to persist, resulting in increased police brutality, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Heather Wishart-Smith is a board director who covers innovation. capitalism noun: an economic system in which a society's means of ...

President Donald Trump declared that America will never be socialist. He’s beating up a strawman, since there has never been a fully socialist country. That’s because, throughout history, every ...

Black Americans have long had significantly lower wages and household wealth than White Americans. The roots of these inequities trace back to the central role slave labor once played in the nation’s ...

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 ...

In a recent column I presented a critique of the economic system known as "capitalism." I argued that the beating heart of that system is the single-minded pursuit of profit, or, to put it more simply ...