Today, it’s no longer about class struggle between capital and labor but about an economy that either serves life or death.” ...

Coal shovels at work in Randolph County, Illinois c. 1970. Katy McClelland/Flickr. (CC 2.0 by-nc-nd)You know something is grotesquely wrong when the 80 richest people in the world have as much wealth ...

Moral economy and political practices examine how shared notions of justice, obligation and reciprocity shape economic and political institutions. Emerging from Polanyian and anthropological ...

BENJAMIN ENKE is the Paul Sack Associate Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Opinions expressed in articles ...

Editor: It is time for serious change. We live in the wealthiest nation in human history. A country that just created its first trillionaire, and yet millions of Americans cannot afford the basics of ...

Stephen Hawking famously predicted in 2000, "I think the next century will be the century of complexity." Today, the late physicist's words ring true, given the many large, multilayered problems that ...

Back in 2013, Pope Francis — still new to the papacy — startled the world with what many branded a “critique of capitalism.” But his words were less about ideology and more about conscience. “How is ...

Where other historians saw a mob of hungry peasants, E.P. Thompson saw resistance to capitalism. Studying England’s 18th-century food riots, the Marxist historian coined the term “moral economy”. The ...

In an era defined by unprecedented environmental challenges, from rising temperatures to extreme weather events, the concept of Earth economics has never been more urgent. Earth economics is an ...