Pushing back against the throw-away economy, the EU is designing an industrial policy around garbage.

Democrats don’t lose elections because of rising prices. They lose when they cut spending and raise interest rates, sacrificing other goals at the altar of price stability.

For economist Albert O. Hirschman, social planning meant creative experimentation rather than theoretical certainty.

We’re witnessing the last-ditch effort of neoliberal capitalism to rescue itself from crisis.

Markets have played a central role in the country’s explosive development since the 1980s. But as GDP rose, inequality has soared—a stark turn away from earlier socialist ideals.

Mainstream economics ignores the massive government interventions that “free market” capitalism requires.

Private insurance companies have long dominated the provision of social security in the United States, but resistance is growing.

A Palestinian mother’s perspective.

Direct payments to families should replace backdoor tax breaks.

Dispelling myths of entrepreneurial exceptionalism, a sweeping new history of U.S. capitalism finds that economic gains have always been driven by the state.

Two books unmask the colossal shipping industry behind global trade.

Failures in prosecuting the businessmen who profited from the Nazi war machine show just how far postwar Europe and America were willing to go in the Cold War quest to protect capitalism.

If we are to emerge from this era of crisis, we need legal thinking that operates on fundamentally different presumptions.

Far from a partisan for free markets, the Founding Father insisted on the need for economic planning. We need more of that vision today.

The celebration of Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste reflects the continued priority of elite preferences over the needs and struggles of ordinary people.