Business Insider spoke to readers in their 20s to 80s about what capitalism means to them and why some of them are rethinking the system.

America wasn’t always like this. After World War II, the economy was built on ownership, competition, and rising wages. Today, it runs on something very different: financial mistakes. Consumer debt ...

Sven Beckert, a Harvard professor, has written a very long history of capitalism. As its subtitle suggests, ‘Capitalism: A ...

In his opening remarks at the World Economic Forum, Larry Fink, the CEO of BlackRock, warned that AI could heighten wealth ...

Why capitalism remains America’s greatest competitive advantage, how science and markets fueled prosperity, and why the ...

Business Insider is tracking what the fight over the future of capitalism means for your work, your wealth, and your world.

The Wealth of a Nation: Institutional Foundations of English Capitalism, by Geoffrey M. Hodgson, Princeton University Press, 304 pages, $39.95 A galaxy of brilliant scholars have tried to account for ...

Capitalism is an efficient economic system because it works directly off consumer needs and delivers supply where there is demand in pursuit of profit. The question is not whether capitalism works, ...

Donald Trump’s success at compelling some American corporations to accept partial government ownership is neither communism nor socialism, as various market fundamentalists have fretted. As I’ve noted ...

Are you smarter than a high schooler? Take this 12th-grade economics quiz on capitalism, socialism, and market systems.

President Donald Trump’s increasing control over businesses and the economy is being described by some commentators as “state capitalism”—a mix between socialism and capitalism. But the term “state ...