On November 5, 2008—the nadir of that year’s eponymous financial crisis—Queen Elizabeth II visited the London School of Economics to celebrate the opening of a new building. In a moment that made ...

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Nineteenth century socialists and radicals were animated by the belief that the labor of society, properly deployed, could usher in a society characterized by comfort, cooperation, and leisure.

In this week’s episode, Professor Richard Wolff speaks on employers blocking, delaying, and opposing improvements on general social welfare; highlights how Trump ends “affirmative action” for veterans ...

Modern American capitalism makes rich corporate titans massively richer but leaves the rest of us behind. The economically irrational but psychologically rational objective of preserving their elitist ...

Capitalist Realism drew attention to a burgeoning paradigm, in which (as per the brief summary Fisher here offers his students) “the idea that there’s no alternative to capitalism becomes the ambient ...

In recent decades, the American economy has been characterized by rising inequality, shrinking free time, and the growing concentration of economic and political power, increasingly undermining the ...

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