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8 Americans explain how capitalism has shaped — and failed — their lives

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.
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Harvard professor uncovers shocking secret history of capitalism after 8-year global quest

Capitalism is often treated as a timeless backdrop to modern life, a system that simply emerged in Europe and then swept the globe by force of inevitability. A new global history by Harvard historian ...

This Harvard professor spent 8 years traveling the world researching the secret history of capitalism and how ‘marginal’ and ‘weak’ it used to be

Sven Beckert has spent nearly a decade trying to understand the 1,000-year-old thing that capitalism is. "This is a ...