The illiberal view of progress has a terrible record. Maximilien Robespierre, architect of the Terror, invoked Rousseau; ...

Though it may seem strange, Karl Marx was not always a communist. As late as 1842, when Marx was in his mid-20s, he actually said he opposed any attempt to establish a communist system. In October ...

A look at the evolution of the theory of creative destruction, widely regarded by economists as a defining feature of ...

As the world economy spirals down into its deepest crisis since the great depression, the writings of Karl Marx have made a return to the top seller lists in bookstores. In his native Germany, the ...

There's more criticism over Thomas Piketty's best-selling "Capital in the Twenty-First Century," this time from Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, two well-known economics professors. Their claim? Mr.

Das Kapital, by Karl Marx, caused the greatest economic controversy of the nineteenth century. Of the twentieth, Henry Ford has performed the most spectacular individual industrial feat. Marx was at ...

The University of Florida has renamed a study room honoring economist and philosopher Karl Marx following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The room in UF’s Library West was named for the Prussian ...