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Free market capitalism is the most effective economic system for creating wealth, allocating resources, innovating and bettering people’s lives. However, it is widely misunderstood and that results in ...

It is often claimed that Americans are critical of capitalism. But a new global comparison reveals that this is not true. A survey on attitudes toward capitalism in 33 countries shows that the image ...

Historian Sven Beckert on where the capitalist system came from, what keeps it alive, and what it would take to bring it down. The past several decades have been turbulent ones for the world system: ...

So often we take the meaning of terms for granted without knowing their complicated histories and changing definitions. “Capitalism” is one such example. In his new book, Capitalism: The Story Behind ...

Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy begins “Anna Karenina” with, “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” The same, perhaps, can be said about functional and ...

The state of democratic capitalism is strong. Since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, the marriage of the U.S.’s democratic polity and free-market economy held firm because public policy allowed ...

The NBA is far and away America’s most progressive sports league. This is both its preferred brand and the actual truth. While racial progress is the hallmark of the league’s history of pursuing ...

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