So-called “resilience” in the face of Trump tariff hikes is “deeply misleading” according to a former IMF chief economist.

Economic inequality is at the heart of all humanity’s major problems, but the wealthiest refuse to confront a system that benefits them, says economist and historian Ingrid Robeyns ...

Capitalism is often treated as a timeless backdrop to modern life, a system that simply emerged in Europe and then swept the globe by force of inevitability. A new global history by Harvard historian ...

Sven Beckert has spent nearly a decade trying to understand the 1,000-year-old thing that capitalism is. "This is a ...

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.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer leaves 10 Downing Street to attend Prime Minister Questions, January 7, 2026, in London. Credit: Alberto Pezzali/AP Photo The other day, the Financial Times ran a ...

The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, has given a downbeat assessment of the global economy in her curtain raiser speech for its meetings, held together with the ...

It’s unlikely that reading a book—or reading at all, let alone an infinite scroll or hardback doorstopper—will ever be a popular way to ring in a new year. But 2025 gave us a tome worthy of such ...

The election of Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York City sends a powerful message — worldwide. In the very heart of global capitalism, a socialist has won. Frank Sinatra once sang in his famous anthem ...

Adam Hanieh is a professor of Political Economy and Global Development at the University of Exeter, whose research focuses on capitalism and imperialism in the Middle East. His latest book is Crude ...