The universal rule of capital explains why national leaders can’t solve national problems—and end up being hated by voters as pathetic failures.

As thinkers like Adorno understood generations ago, molding and hijacking desire is an essential aspect of modern capitalism. The surveillance capitalism might be using powerful new means, but it is ...

Robinson’s introductory essay “Globalization: Nine Theses on Our Epoch”, originally written in the 1990s, provides a critique ...

In 2014, the French economist Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century became an international sensation, reshaping the inequality debate and launching its author into superstardom.

As a 45-year-old who just left his job, I read George Soros's assessment of the world economy with concern ("The Crisis of Global Capitalism," The World Economy, Feb. 1). Soros predicts that Thailand ...

The left is in shambles everywhere while hard-right and far-right parties are riding high in polls across the world. I contend that globalization is at the heart of these developments, and thus it is ...

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

The groundbreaking 1970 book American Health Empire reported that health care conglomerates had jelled into a profit-making system notable for inflicting chaos on sick people. Someday, the authors ...

The Spartacists’ central assertion is that globalization is nothing more than a propaganda campaign aimed at intimidating the working class. Accordingly, they maintain that, insofar as changes have ...

Leftist intellectuals were disappointed when the global financial crisis of 2008/2009 did not lead to the collapse of capitalism. They are now pinning their hopes on the coronavirus to create their ...

A majority of people around the world believe that capitalism is a negative force, according to a new study. Researchers contacted 34,000 individuals in 28 countries, including the US, France, China ...

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