Ages of American Capitalism: A History of the United States, by Jonathan Levy.Random House, 944 pp., $40.

This trend among young Americans, in combination with the United States’ increasingly poor ranking in the Index of Economic Freedom, shows that capitalism in the U.S. is now under threat, as it ...

The ties between slavery and capitalism in the United States weren’t always crystal clear in our history books. For a long time, historians mostly depicted slavery as a regional institution of ...

The United States is the epicenter of the pandemic, with more than 1.8 million active cases, ... Capitalism can provide us with the incentives to come up with vaccines.

The United States has increased spending on social programs for the poor and the middle class, especially the elderly, while also carrying out financial-market rescues that mainly benefit the ...

However, backed by its unique economic standing at the end of World War II, the United States set out to carry through the making and consolidation of an integrated global capitalism.

After the Civil War, a new kind of capitalism arose, in the United States and elsewhere. Yet that new capitalism—characterized first and foremost by states with unprecedented bureaucratic, ...

In the United States, the richest 1 percent of Americans own 40 percent of the country’s wealth, while a larger share of working-age people (18-65) live in poverty than in any other nation ...

Short-term management focused on quarterly earnings and daily stock prices in the United States vs. long-term management in Japan (Japan has more companies that are over 100 years old than any ...