capitalism

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  8/4/2020
  

  COVID-19 has Exposed the Flaws in how We Finance Hospitals

  by Barbara Bridgman Perkins

  The financial sector has hijacked health care, making Americans vulnerable to pandemics. 

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• SOURCE: Current Affairs
  7/28/2020
  

  Policing Can’t End Violence in the U.S., But Reparations Might

  Because American police have always upheld racial capitalism through violence, anti-racist public safety requires police abolition—and police abolition requires reparations.

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• 7/3/2020
  

  Will Capitalist Consumer Culture Absorb Another Generation of Protest?

  by Walter G. Moss

  Do recent protests against the symbols of racism--monuments and statues--reflect a political movement that can easily be absorbed by today's multicultural corporations, or will that energy sustain a push to fundamentally reform American capitalism too? 

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• SOURCE: The Intercept
  6/24/2020
  

  The Rebellion Against Racial Capitalism (Podcast)

  UCLA history professor Robin D.G. Kelley on the current abolitionist movement and the violent history of racial capitalism.

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• SOURCE: Current Affairs
  6/9/2020
  

  Capitalism as Religion (Review Essay)

  Eugene McCarraher’s The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity examines the ways in which capitalism, despite its purported scientific rationality, operates as a perverse kind of religion.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  5/18/2020
  

  Is Capitalism Racist?

  Nicholas Lemann considers Walter Johnson's new book The Broken Heart of America in light of recent debates among historians about the relationship of slavery, capitalism and racism.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  4/7/2020
  

  How Coffee Ruined a Country

  by Lizabeth Cohen

  Lizabeth Cohen reviews Augustine Sedgewick's book, which argues that coffee monoculture was disastrous to El Salvador.

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  4/5/2020
  

  Wall Street Wins – Again: Bailouts in the Time of Coronavirus

  by Nomi Prins

  If ground-up solutions to help ordinary Americans and small businesses aren’t adopted, one thing is predictable: once this crisis has been “managed,” we’ll be set up for a larger one in an even more disparate world.

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  3/25/2020
  

  Toward an Economic Democracy

  by Christopher Mackin

  Why the coronavirus crisis is an opportunity to reshape the relationship between workers and their employers.

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• SOURCE: Tropics of Meta
  3/19/2020
  

  Hospice of the Creative Class

  by Alex Sayf Cummings

  No event has so starkly revealed the brutal inequalities of contemporary capitalism as the coronavirus pandemic.

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• SOURCE: N+1
  3/23/2020
  

  Coronavirus and Chronopolitics

  by Gabriel Winant

  What matters now is the balance of authority in everyday life—between young and old, worker and boss.

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• SOURCE: Harvard Business Review
  3/16/2020
  

  What Democracy’s History Tells Us About Its Future

  In an email exchange hosted by the Harvard Business Review, Professor of Business Rebecca Henderson and Professor of History Jill Lepore discussed capitalism’s role in an increasingly populist world.

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• 2/2/20
  

  What Did Hitler Think About Anglo-American Capitalism?

  by James Thornton Harris

  A review of Brendan Simms' controversial new book, Hitler: A Global Biography.  

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/5/20
  

  Why policymakers must act to preserve information freedom at home and abroad

  by Diana Lemberg

  A Cold War dichotomy pitting capitalism and democracy versus state control misreads history.

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• 1/5/20
  

  Capitalism Versus Socialism: Did Capitalism Really Win?

  by Walter G. Moss

  The main task of voters in 2020 and thereafter will not be to choose whether we want capitalism or democratic socialism. Rather, it will be to decide the best pragmatic mix of the two (and best presidential candidate) to further the common good. 

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• SOURCE: Forbes
  11/16/19
  

  In History Departments, It’s Up With Capitalism And Down With Enrollments

  by Brian Domitrovic

  As faculty in history departments delved anew into explorations of the economic system, the American case in particular, students took leave of instruction in history at an acute rate. 

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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.”