Wars, genocide, natural disasters. Unemployment, the rising costs of basic necessities like food and healthcare, sexism and racism. These are the hallmarks of the global economic system of capitalism ...

In safety capitalism, entrepreneurs boldly predict the future and profit from developing new and better ways to do things. Most young Americans support the capitalist framework linking creativity, ...

This article is an edited excerpt from the forthcoming book, The Political Economy of Distributism: Property, Liberty, and the Common Good (Catholic University of America Press, June 2023, 228 pages).

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) While many people bandy around the term “capitalism,” it actually comes in many ...