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 ...

With a proclaimed socialist, and some claiming the individual is actually a communist, running in the New York City mayoral race, a renewed debate about the three “isms” of socialism, communism and ...

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 ...

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

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Jessica Mendoza: In the United States, the economic system is usually described ...

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