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What Does “Capitalism” Really Mean, Anyway?
The endgame of capitalism, in his account, is a world where “almost nothing escaped commodification.” Beckert here refers to commodities…
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Politics
Americans Seem to Be Falling Out of Love With Capitalism
In reality, they “are seizing people using firearms, physical violence, and warehouse detentions,” and whisking away American citizens as…
Politics
Democrats: Don’t Let Trump Define What State Capitalism Can Be
Importantly, this is not just a story about China. State enterprises account for over 20 percent of the largest companies in the world,…
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Did Racial Capitalism Set the Bronx on Fire?
Sometimes people say exactly the right thing. Other times, they don’t, and we just pretend that they did. When eighteenth-century…
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Business
A Lesson in Creativity and Capitalism from Two Zany YouTubers
James Hobson began publishing videos on YouTube in 2006, when he was still a high-school student in Ontario, Canada. His early uploads…