Recently I had a conversation with a friend who was upset that a corporation was able to get the government to use its power of eminent domain to take the land from several people for a ...

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Before discussing the future impact of capitalism on human society, it is important to understand where this economic system came from and why ...

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Capitalism’s recurring crises have long fueled predictions of its inevitable demise. Vivek Chibber explains why breakdown isn’t guaranteed — and why political agency, not historical laws, will ...

In September, 1639, John Winthrop, the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, recorded in his journal a dreadful tale of Puritan true crime. One Robert Keayne had prospered as a London merchant ...