The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, Shoshana Zuboff, PublicAffairs, 704 pages The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New ...

As the impeachment trial of President Trump comes to an end, many are asking themselves, what was this about? Is it about stopping an authoritarian president from abusing presidential power, or is ...

In Escape From Capitalism, economist Clara Mattei offers an uncompromising defense of a Marxist account of society and makes the case for democratic control of the economy. Review of Escape From ...

As a 45-year-old who just left his job, I read George Soros's assessment of the world economy with concern ("The Crisis of Global Capitalism," The World Economy, Feb. 1). Soros predicts that Thailand ...

In 2014, the French economist Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century became an international sensation, reshaping the inequality debate and launching its author into superstardom.

Leftist intellectuals were disappointed when the global financial crisis of 2008/2009 did not lead to the collapse of capitalism. They are now pinning their hopes on the coronavirus to create their ...

In our new book, Renovating Democracy: Governing in the Age of Globalization and Digital Capitalism, we address the three greatest challenges on the horizon: how the participatory power of social ...

In the post-1980 era, financial capital became the primary driving force behind neoliberal globalization. Today, however, ...

The left is in shambles everywhere while hard-right and far-right parties are riding high in polls across the world. I contend that globalization is at the heart of these developments, and thus it is ...

The theory that human activities are adversely affecting the global climate has attracted many supporters–not because of the soundness of the science, which few people are competent to judge, but ...

Cheap Chinese products, like motorcycles that sell for only $440, are flooding China’s southern neighbors and consumers in Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia are laying out the welcome mat. The ...