The relationship between capitalism and democracy in America isn’t always easy—and it has been that way since 1776. After the American Revolution, no one was more responsible for setting capitalism’s ...

Introduction -- A commercial republic: 1776-1860 -- The two Americas -- The triumph of capitalism: 1865-1914 -- The age of giants -- The revolt against laissez-faire -- The business of America is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new book called "Ages of American Capitalism" explores the Federal Reserve's role and other dimensions of economic history in ...

A new Wall Street Journal-NORC survey finds that older and conservative people are more optimistic about the country ...

Making markets -- The capitalist constitution / Woody Holton -- What was the great bull market? / Julia Ott -- The new york city fiscal crisis and the idea of the state / Kim Phillips-Fein -- ...

Here is an inconvenient truth: our forebears used the unrestrained free market to effect a staggering destruction of continental wildlife, an unforgivable crime against evolution in America. They ...

In 2026, America will mark a remarkable convergence of anniversaries. It will be the 250th anniversary of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations, which explained how free people, trading freely, could ...

American exceptionalism is often dismissed today as nostalgia or arrogance. In reality, it is neither. It is a practical observation about how a particular system, rooted in liberty, markets, and ...

The vulnerability of the world economy to oil prices was painfully visible in the first half of 2026 following the US and Israel war against Iran. The power of this commodity to upend economies has ...

“Any book about capitalism that begins almost 900 years ago in the port city of Aden, in what is now Yemen, promises a new story,” said Marcus Rediker in The New York Times. Harvard historian Sven ...