For a long time, the word “capitalism” was taboo. Now that multimillionaires and billionaires have taken over the U.S.

Historian Sven Beckert on where the capitalist system came from, what keeps it alive, and what it would take to bring it down. The past several decades have been turbulent ones for the world system: ...

Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy begins “Anna Karenina” with, “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” The same, perhaps, can be said about functional and ...

Capitalism has long been heralded by many economists as the best economic system around, rewarding — and therefore encouraging — competition and innovation, creating wealth, stimulating growth and ...

Discover Joseph Schumpeter's influential theories on creative destruction, entrepreneurship, and capitalist evolution—key ...

Jared Dillian is the editor and publisher of the Daily Dirtnap. An investment strategist at Mauldin Economics, he is author of "All the Evil of This World." He may have a stake in the areas he writes ...

The state of democratic capitalism is strong. Since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, the marriage of the U.S.’s democratic polity and free-market economy held firm because public policy allowed ...

Capitalism has been the most successful economic system in the world, but it isn’t monolithic. It’s practiced in two very different ways in the U.S. and other cultures. Unregulated, amoral capitalism, ...

Haywood Kelly: At Morningstar, we're proud that our research teams not only operate independently but that our analysts are encouraged to explore ideas and raise contrarian viewpoints. The enemy of ...