America is a nation at war with its mythologies. For all the electoral postmortems about the desire for economic change, what’s unsurprisingly absent is what seems, to me, an obvious omission: an ...

No book has done more than Capital to explain the way the world works. Only a few centuries old, capitalism’s unprecedented mode of producing for human needs and generating wealth shapes present and ...

NMAHMAI copy Purchased from the NMAH Library Endowment. Contents Foreword / by Marion Nestle -- Introduction : Do foodies need to understand capitalism? -- How our capitalist food system came to be -- ...

Now that so many people have realized that the capitalist system is riddled with problems, they want a clear explanation about the functioning of the system. They are dissatisfied and impatient with ...

Sianne Ngai’s Theory of the Gimmick continues her project of looking at how aesthetic categories shape labor, value, and everyday experience. Sianne Ngai. (Courtesy of Harvard University Press) Over ...

Democracy exists if and when a community organizes its self-governance around the full participation, on an equal basis, of all the members of the community. Its other, autocracy, exists when a ...

Chinese state capitalism blurs the relationship between commercial actors and the party-state in ways that have no direct comparison in market-oriented liberal democracies. While policymakers have ...

Why would a professor at Utah Valley University incorrectly claim that “today’s young people are quite aware of the capitalist hellscape they’re going through and they are turning to the vision of a ...

If you shut your eyes during the Democratic primary debates and listen to Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, you can almost hear 2016 Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina — with one major ...

Political ideology is now a significant risk factor in corporate governance. This is no more apparent than when the term “woke capitalism” is invoked. The term is used by the political right as a ...