always so. Capitalism took shape centuries ago, starting with a handful of isolated changes in farming, trade, and … ideas arose to reshape societies in a constant surge of change. Approaching capitalism as a culture, as important for its …

Two systems of governance, capitalism and democracy, prevail in the world today. Operating in partly overlapping … -- largely because capitalism has not been recognized as a system of governance. Rejecting the simple definition "capitalism … = actions of firms in markets," Harvard's Bruce R. Scott offers instead a conception of capitalism as a three-level system akin …

Early Islam and the Birth of Capitalism proposes a strikingly original thesis—that capitalism first emerged in Arabia …