In 1916 Vladimir Lenin wrote his book Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism. In that book he asserts that successful…

In ancient Israel the sabbatical year (ever 7th year) was not only a year of allowing fields to be left…

The most core and basic of all human nature is self-interest. This is the nature we are all born with.…

Polanyi famously asserted that:  “The victory of fascism was made practically unavoidable by the liberals’ obstruction of any reform involving…

John Maynard Keynes was born in Cambridge, England in 1883, to a privileged elitist academic family. Keynes became an influential…

Walter Bagehot was a mid-Victorian era journalist in Britain who married the eldest daughter of James Wilson, the founder of…

During the 18th century, the higher efficiency of the nascent factory system made the previously revolutionary cottage industry production system…

Good capitalism is exemplified in the narrative of Daniel Defoe’s book A Plan of English Commerce, where he adroitly gives the…

The Big Bang Event is the general term applied to the group of naturalistic (non-supernatural) theories which attempt to explain…

The term capitalism was originally coined by Karl Marx as a derisive strawman caricature of the system which allowed exploitive…