"This statement will be seen by some merely as an act of loyalty. Nothing could be further from the truth. I have grappled, struggled deeply, over this situation, while seeking to remain faithful to ...

The military-industrial complex rakes in profits as the rest of the world suffers, economist C. P. Chandrasekhar argues.

In the second volume of this series, leading historians, political scientists, and economists analyze the role that the market economy played in the creation of the United States. Alongside the ...

Some capitalists, like Jeffrey Epstein, are guilty of monstrous personal crimes in addition. That does not mean capitalism ...

Jacobin’s top story on Noam Chomsky is from 2024: “Let’s Celebrate Noam Chomsky, the Intellectual and Moral Giant.” Following Chomsky’s star turn in the recently released files of child rapist Jeffrey ...

One day last spring, I came back to my office from a lunch meeting and found a high-school student camping outside. He was a prospective University of Chicago undergrad, and he said he was passionate ...

Stakes in private companies. Handshake deals with chief executives. The president’s economic policy has drifted far from principles that long defined the Republican Party. Is it capitalism at all?

Capitalism is so intertwined with Dutch culture that residents of the Netherlands celebrate their king’s birthday by setting up vrijmarkten, “free markets,” in town squares to buy and sell household ...

Is unemployment a liability or an asset? It's not an asset to the worker in search of livelihood, of course, but mainstream economics acknowledges that some joblessness helps to keep prices down. From ...

Every era of capitalism produces its own contradictions. Ours has a number of them, and together they’re eroding the foundations of both our prosperity and democracy. We remain tethered to fossil ...

There is a lazy argument, often repeated in India’s political and intellectual circles: “Capitalism is only for those who already have capital. That is why it does not work for the poor.” It sounds ...