It's a new century, so maybe it's time for some new ideas. Capitalism of the 19th century, especially in Britain and the U.S., was characterized by very low taxes--no federal taxes at all in the U ...

The 19th century was marked by the rise of the nation ... economics toward limited democratic rule and free-market capitalism. It was a time of tariffs, small government, territorial expansion ...

Economic nationalists insist that tariffs were central to the economy’s takeoff in the late 19th century. The evidence ...

Bruce S. Hall is an associate history professor at the University of California Berkeley whose lecture about capitalism in 19th-century Timbuktu is sponsored by the prestigious Fusco Distinguished ...

“Better to snap a yearling’s tendon than to feed him to age five just to see it snap then,” writes Malcolm Harris in Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World.

The 19th century saw a similar backlash ... with which to process weighty questions about the effects of consumer capitalism and globalization. Galliano’s future is still in question, yet ...

The species of capitalism that replaced mercantilism gave rise to its own spate of critics. By the beginning of the 19th century, per Cassidy, “the pace of development had accelerated ...

Does the 18th-century system, based on colonial monopolies such as the one held by the East India Company, belong to the same tradition as the industrial, factory-based capitalism of the 19th century?

A conversation with historian Michael Sonenscher about the tricky task of defining capitalism and his new book, Capitalism: The Story Behind the Word. So often we take the meaning of terms for ...

The 19th century was marked by the rise of the nation ... economics toward limited democratic rule and free-market capitalism. The prevailing belief at the time was that nation-states should ...