Free Market Genocides: The Real History of Trade
One reason this hushed-up history matters is that even today economic “rationality” and plunder often remain partners in crime.
Jag Bhalla
Browsing: Capitalism
Capitalism’s Core Problem: The Case for Universal Property
Capitalism’s most grievous flaws are, at root, problems of property rights and must be addressed at that level.
Peter Barnes
Vaccine Greed: Capitalism Without Competition Isn’t Capitalism, It’s Exploitation
Among the pandemic’s many lessons, however, is that greed can easily work against the common good.
Jag Bhalla
Do Billionaires Destroy Democracy and Capitalism?
The U.S. simply needs to look back at history, to our Gilded Age, to see what can be done to curb wealth growth.
Philip Kotler
Monopoly Was Invented to Reveal the Toxic Greed of Capitalism
It was a rags-to-riches fabrication that ironically exemplified Monopoly’s implicit values.
Kate Raworth
How to Move Beyond Socialism versus Libertarianism
Harnessing markets and government together to serve the common good.
Geoffrey Hodgson
Why the Richest, Freest Economies Belong to Countries With Large Powerful States
Flourishing market economy requires, not small government, but high-quality government.
Brink Lindsey
Capitalism’s Case for Abolishing Billionaires
Adam Smith wanted to keep the power of the rich in check.
Linsey J McGoey
Capitalism(s), Alone
One economic system dominates the world. But there’s more than one kind of capitalism.
Branko Milanović
Keynes Was Really a Conservative
“The class war,” said Keynes, “will find me on the side of the educated bourgeoisie.”
Bruce Bartlett
Nobel Economist Says Inequality is Destroying Democratic Capitalism
Taking the free out of free markets is making a mockery of democracy.
Angus Deaton
Takers and Makers: Who are the Real Value Creators?
Where value meets profit meets economic rent.
Mariana Mazzucato
Milton Friedman’s Economic Racism
The godfather of neoclassical economics ignored the market forces of discrimination and slavery.
John Jackson
Does Capitalism Kill Cooperation?
Evidence that innovation and growth isn’t based on economic self-interest.
Peter Turchin
A Fast Way to Destroy An Economy: Let Monopolies Control it
Small may not necessarily be beautiful, but there are scientific reasons that big is often bad.
Jonathan Tepper, Denise Hearn
The Real Reason Stock Buybacks Are a Problem
Buybacks are a massive tax dodge for shareholders
Steve Roth
Self-Driving Vehicles: What Will Happen to Truck Drivers?
The replacement of drivers will be one of the most dramatic, visible battlegrounds between automation and the human worker.
Andrew Yang
Three Cheers for Financial Repression
Truth told, it’s more like financial liberation.
Tom Streithorst
How to Construct a New Invisible Hand: A Conversation with Peter Barnes
A middle path between laissez faire and centralized planning.
David S. Wilson, Peter Barnes
Monopoly Now Wants You to Cheat—Just Like Real Capitalists
America’s favorite board game is reflecting the economy we live in.
Nick Cassella
Neoliberalism: How Seeing Markets as Perfect Turned into an Ideology Justifying Crony Capitalism
You can be pro-market and anti-neoliberal.
Simon Wren-Lewis
Most ‘Wealth’ Isn’t the Result of Hard Work. It Has Been Accumulated by Being Idle and Unproductive.
It’s time to call the housing crisis what it really is: the largest transfer of wealth in living memory.
Laurie Macfarlane
Post-Capitalist Entrepreneurship: Basic Income, Blockchain Cities, and Local Currencies
Towards a new, local, but globally interconnected, digital, collaborative, urban economic model of shared prosperity.
Boyd Cohen
What Will Replace Outdated Left and Right Economic Thinking? The Commons Paradigm.
The commons is about self-organized social systems for managing shared wealth.
David Bollier
When Wall Street Owns Main Street — Literally
The rise of Wall Street landlords and the decline of homeownership.
Rana Foroohar
How the Postal System and the Printing Press Transformed European Markets
In the sixteenth century European markets opened up as merchant guild monopolies declined.
Prateek Raj
The Myth of the Prosperity Generating Free Market Has Been Dispelled. It’s Time for a New New Deal.
A visionary concept that provides guidance and direction is required now.
Thomas Fricke
