America wasn’t always like this. After World War II, the economy was built on ownership, competition, and rising wages. Today, it runs on something very different: financial mistakes. Consumer debt ...

Sven Beckert, a Harvard professor, has written a very long history of capitalism. As its subtitle suggests, ‘Capitalism: A ...

Business Insider spoke to readers in their 20s to 80s about what capitalism means to them and why some of them are rethinking the system.

Why capitalism remains America’s greatest competitive advantage, how science and markets fueled prosperity, and why the American Dream still works despite rising doubt.

Capitalism is not usually rewritten by someone who calls himself a "dirtbag." Yet that is exactly what ...

In his opening remarks at the World Economic Forum, Larry Fink, the CEO of BlackRock, warned that AI could heighten wealth ...

Capitalism is an efficient economic system because it works directly off consumer needs and delivers supply where there is demand in pursuit of profit. The question is not whether capitalism works, ...

The Wealth of a Nation: Institutional Foundations of English Capitalism, by Geoffrey M. Hodgson, Princeton University Press, 304 pages, $39.95 A galaxy of brilliant scholars have tried to account for ...

Business Insider is tracking what the fight over the future of capitalism means for your work, your wealth, and your world.

I READ with great interest an article by Umair Haque about capitalism and socialism and would like to share part of his views ...

President Donald Trump’s increasing control over businesses and the economy is being described by some commentators as “state capitalism”—a mix between socialism and capitalism. But the term “state ...