capitalism

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• SOURCE: LA Times
  9/10/11
  

  Ms. Monopoly is here. Psst: A woman invented the game in the first place

  The Monopoly game was the brainchild of a woman named Lizzie Magie at the turn of the 20th century.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  9/4/19
  

  The Original Evil Corporation

  by William Dalrymple

  The East India Company, a trading firm with its own army, was masterful at manipulating governments for its own profit. It’s the prototype for today’s multinationals.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  8/30/19
  

  To rescue democracy, we must revive the reforms of the Progressive Era

  by Ganesh Sitaraman

  The playbook for taming industrial capitalism already exists. It’s the essential starting point for reform today.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  6/24/19
  

  Whatever Happened to Moral Capitalism?

  by Michael Kazin

  Let one loyal, if anxious, Democrat offer a solution: “moral capitalism,” a system that, in the words of Congressman Joe Kennedy III of Massachusetts, would be “judged not by how much it produces, but how broadly it empowers, backed by a government unafraid to set the conditions for fair and just markets.”

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• 5/5/19
  

  Capitalism? Socialism? How about Just a Fair and Moral Economy?

  by Walter G. Moss

  The terms "capitalism" and "socialism" have too much historical baggage. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  3/31/19
  

  The Real Roots of ‘Black Capitalism’

  by Mehrsa Baradaran

  Nixon’s solution for racial ghettos was tax breaks and incentives, not economic justice.

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• SOURCE: OpenDemocracy
  2/25/19
  

  How fast food changed historian Marcia Chatelain's thinking about capitalism and race

  An award-winning African-American history scholar and author on uncovering the structural causes of food poverty.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/4/19
  

  At Checkpoint Charlie, Cold War History Confronts Crass Commercialism

  GWU Professor Hope Harrison is quoted extensively in the piece. 

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• SOURCE: New Republic
  4-20-18
  

  Is Sean Wilentz right that liberals believe in capitalism and progressives don’t?

  by Win McCormack

  Some doubt the distinction he made in a recent essay that drew wide attention.

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• 2/25/18
  

  What this Historian Discovered by Traveling the World Will Dishearten Neo-Liberals

  by Annelise Orleck

  Capitalism is ravaging the working class from one end of the globe to the other.

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• 12/24/17
  

  It’s Not Mexico that’s the Problem. It’s Capitalism.

  by John Tutino

  Mexicans’ continuing search for sustainable lives and sustaining communities is proclaimed an assault on U.S. power and prosperity. This is a distraction.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  9-12-17
  

  The cost of coastal capitalism: How greedy developers left Miami ripe for destruction

  by Andrew W. Kahrl

  Building on vulnerable coastlines isn't about ignorance or hubris — it's about profit.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  6-1-17
  

  Eric Foner hails the work of the young historians reinventing the history of capitalism

  by Eric Foner

  "Then and now, the key issue facing American society was as old as the republic itself: Is it possible to reconcile capitalism and democracy? On this question, the jury is still out.”

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• SOURCE: Aeon
  12-31-15
  

  Historians are rewriting the history of slavery and capitalism

  The new insight is that profit motives were characteristic of American slavery.

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• SOURCE: OZY
  11-10-15
  

  How England's Worst King Spawned Capitalism

  by Simon Constable

  Henry VIII’s decision to dissolve hundreds of monasteries was a revolutionary act by a monarch spouting the need for monastic reform. What this despot with outsize appetites could not have foreseen is that by selling off the monks’ land, he opened it to market forces.

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• SOURCE: The Junto
  10-27-15
  

  Historians’ debate over capitalism is heating up

  The new critiques are drawing a response.

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• 2-13-15
  

  Why Aren’t People Up in Arms About Capitalism these Days?

  by Steve Fraser

  Our times are often compared with the Gilded Age of the 19th century, but back then people complained loudly. Why don’t they today?

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• SOURCE: YouTube
  1-15-15
  

  Cornell is becoming a center of research into the history of capitalism (video)

  The History of Capitalism Initiative is Cornell University's intellectual center for ideas, programs, research, and curriculum development on the history of American capitalism.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  12-2-14
  

  The brutal history of cotton debunks many of the most popular myths about capitalism.

  by Eric Herschthal

  Sven Beckert’s remarkable and unsettling new book, "Empire of Cotton: A Global History," puts capitalism in a new light.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  11-24-14
  

  Hottest subfield in history today may be the history of capitalism ... but The Nation wonders what happens if growth stalls (or if we're better off if it does)

  by Timothy Shenk

  Capitalism’s newest critics offer a groundbreaking account of slavery, but does their economic history add up?