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 ...

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 ...

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.

According to John Cassidy’s century-spanning history Capitalism and Its Critics, the system lives on because of its antagonists. In 2008, on the precipice of the global financial crisis, the British ...

Over the past two decades, many developing countries have turned away from free market capitalism and toward modern state capitalism, which is a combination of traditional state economic planning and ...

The theory that human activities are adversely affecting the global climate has attracted many supporters–not because of the soundness of the science, which few people are competent to judge, but ...

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 ...

It's the Political Economy, Stupid is alternately a depressing, frustrating, and inspiring call to action for the left in the face of the diminishing economic and social returns of global capitalism. ...

Vladimir Ilich Lenin (1870-1924) is best known for his role in the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the founding of the Soviet Union. Lenin symbolized for many people the principles and ideas of the ...

The official death toll in the catastrophic fire that engulfed seven high-rise residential buildings of Wang Fuk Court in Tai Po, Hong Kong rose to 151 on Monday. Over 2,000 survivors have lost ...

“Any book about capitalism that begins almost 900 years ago in the port city of Aden, in what is now Yemen, promises a new story,” said Marcus Rediker in The New York Times. Harvard historian Sven ...

This work begins with an ambitious claim: that the development of capitalism “constituted the most impactful revolution the world has ever seen” and that “no other event in human history has impacted ...