With its deep roots and global scope, the capitalist system provides the framework for our lives--a framework of constant change, sometimes measured and predictable, sometimes drastic and out of ...

Introduction -- Book one: The age of commerce, 1660-1860. Preface: Commerce ; Mercantilism ; Organic economy, household economy ; Republican political economy ; Capitalism and the democracy ; ...

How’s That Government Shutdown Fight Going, Democrats? For the Anti-Israel Left, the War Can Never End Progressives Have Democrats Right Where They Want Them: Broke A Great Start The Inevitable in ...

Most US historians assume that capitalism either “came in the first ships” or was the inevitable result of the expansion of the market. Unable to analyze the dynamics of specific forms of social ...

This course is available on the MA in Asian and International History (LSE and NUS), MA in Modern History, MSc in China in Comparative Perspective, MSc in Economic History, MSc in Economic History ...

Economic booms sparked by capitalism can lead to inequality and then political upheaval. Democracy and capitalism, however, ...

American capitalism has outperformed other advanced economies for decades. It is unlikely that other countries can catch up ...

In a recent paper on “The evolution of the Swedish market model,” the economists Nima Sanandaji, Victor Ström, Mouna Esmaeilzadeh and Saeid Esmaeilzadeh show that “Sweden historically pioneered many ...

The bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in 2008 was a watershed moment in what was eventually dubbed the Great Recession. The financial services giant, once presumed to be too big to fail, became a symbol — ...

Palo Alto is haunted. “Unseen lineages of historical responsibility” lurk amidst the oak trees on Stanford’s campus and the sleek venture capital offices on Sand Hill Road, giving the town — and the ...