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 ...

Any economic activity requires non-economic domains to support it. From this perspective, the author views capitalism as an 'institutionalized social order' that encompasses these non-economic domains ...

With the constant barrage of news, it is easy to focus on the president’s newest outrage. Less obvious, permanent damage is being done to our republic’s founding principle of “democratic capitalism.” ...

Historian Sheri Berman on the links between declining democracy, neoliberal economics and what’s driving radicalization on the right and left, Democracy is facing an uncertain future in the United ...

The University of Virginia has published the Global Capitalism Index (GCI), a first-in-kind data set offering unprecedented ...

Capitalism defines freedom as autonomy in the marketplace, freedom from restraint. Democracy defines freedom as power in the political process ...

In Private Power and Democracy’s Decline, Mordecai Kurz explores the relationship between free-market capitalism and democracy. He shows that technology has made capitalism different from what was ...

Laura and Bloomberg’s Stephanie Flanders delve into politico-economic issues in the news. Is the West’s experiment with social democracy over? Is survival of the richest our fate? In this episode, ...

Sohrab Ahmari takes a long, historical view of capitalism and finds one period in the modern era when economies worked well. In the United States, this was the 40 or so years after the Great ...

But even before that, the end of democracy had already been pointed out. We have previously discussed the books by Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, ‘How Democracies Die’, as well ...