Higher economic growth was generated during Democratic presidencies compared to Republican presidencies in the United States. The question is why. Blinder and Watson (2016) explain that the Democratic-Republican presidential growth gap (D-R growth gap) can hardly be attributed to the policies...

According to the theory of capital as power, capitalism, like any other mode of power, is born through sabotage and lives in chains - and yet everywhere we look we see it grow and expand. What explains this apparent puzzle of "growth in the midst of sabotage"? The answer, we argue, begins with...