Well, in his speech giving the 2018 Nelson Mandela Lecture, President Obama talked about the exclusive company he now keeps. BARACK OBAMA: In every country just about, the disproportionate economic ...

In the “Labour process and the process of producing surplus value,” Marx deals with the labor process in general, or the production of use values, and the capitalist labor process, or the production ...

University of Sydney provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Readers interested in the emerging politics of the human/non-human and the deep and difficult tensions between capitalism and ...

The Center for Western Civilization, Thought & Policy will host speakers Larry Temkin and Jason Brennan for an event on Tues. April 9. Brennan and Temkin's lecture, "Capitalism: The Good, The Bad, and ...

In this lecture, Zunz will discuss the large and cumulative impact that private gifts have had on national affairs. He examines the ways philanthropic commitments have enlarged American democracy.

“The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails,” Marx writes at the beginning of the work, “presents itself as an immense accumulation of commodities, its unit ...

In September, 1639, John Winthrop, the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, recorded in his journal a dreadful tale of Puritan true crime. One Robert Keayne had prospered as a London merchant ...

Is capitalism working? How is it supposed to work? And what do we do if it fails? In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis these questions were more relevant than ever. Now, in the midst of economic ...

When 1.3 million Americans lose their unemployment benefits on Saturday, they can thank Rep. Paul Ryan. He took the lead in negotiating a bipartisan budget deal with Democratic Sen. Patty Murray, and ...

Philippe Aghion is a Professor at the College de France and at INSEAD, and a visiting professor at the London School of Economics and a fellow of the Econometric Society and of the American Academy of ...