Stephanie Kelton, a professor of economics and public policy, formerly chief economist on the US Senate Budget Committee with the endorsement of Bernie Sanders, is a leading proponent of modern ...

This is the first part of a two-part article. Throughout the history of capitalism and its recurrent crises, various theories have been brought forward by “left” theorists who maintain that these ...

Anarcho-capitalism is a political and economic theory that merges the principles of anarchism and capitalism. It advocates for a society without a centralized state, where individuals freely exchange ...

Capitalism’s recurring crises have long fueled predictions of its inevitable demise. Vivek Chibber explains why breakdown isn’t guaranteed — and why political agency, not historical laws, will ...

What you need to know about these social, political, and economic theories Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and ...

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 ...

In my view, Karl Marx's analysis of capitalism is really powerful and important. I think the best formulation of this analysis is in his book Capital, Volume 1. Joseph Kay recently wrote a blog post ...

Environmental destruction— climate change, species loss, oceanic depletion, and the rendering of vast tracts of air, water and land unusable has, according to a group of recent IPCC reports, reached ...

Is Marxism is the solution to all capitalism’s problems. Or a threat to America’s soul. To some, Marxism is the solution to all capitalism’s problems. To others, it’s a major threat to democracy. But ...

This is the second part of an article. Part one is available here. Historically, gold emerged as the money commodity. Over the past century and more, fiat money issued by the state has come to replace ...