Capital Matters is a recurring series by Jordan Steiker that covers federal constitutional regulation of the death penalty ...

Beckert's book, a sweeping 1,300-page history, synthesizes bits and pieces of the academic literature to recount the ...

For a year-end read, try Harvard historian Sven Beckert's new book, ‘Capitalism: A Global History.’ It traces the global ...

Economic freedom is often assumed to be an inherent component of capitalism, based on the libertarian belief that individuals ...

It recalls a recent opinion piece by Wall Street Journal editorial page columnist Joseph Sternberg. Titled “The Fed Quietly ...

Last Friday, I spoke on a panel at NYU on political theorist Alyssa Battistoni’s new book Free Gifts: Capitalism and the ...

Saint Augustine There is an ancient saying, attributed to Aesop: “We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to ...

The Harvard professor provides a ceaseless flow of startling details in this exhaustively researched, 1000-year account ...

Buffett is best known as a value investor – someone who buys companies he believes are undervalued. “If you buy things for far below what they’re worth and you buy a group of them, you basically don’t ...

Kirkcaldy, a small town on Scotland’s east coast, is a nice place. But aside from a small alleyway, Adam Smith Close, the town has largely forgotten that Adam Smith lived there. The Adam Smith ...

The message of Christmas – as Dickens and the Muppets knew – is that sharing wealth, rather than hording it brings both prosperity and joy to the world, writes James Price As we approach Christmas, ...

With the world in mortal crisis throughout the 1930s, the leading capitalist intellectuals of the day met in a series of fraught conferences. Horrified by the advances of totalitarianism, economists ...