8 Americans explain how capitalism has shaped — and failed — their lives

Business Insider spoke to readers in their 20s to 80s about what capitalism means to them and why some of them are rethinking the system.

This Harvard professor spent 8 years traveling the world researching the secret history of capitalism and how 'marginal' and 'weak' it used to be

Sven Beckert has spent nearly a decade trying to understand the 1,000-year-old thing that capitalism is. “This is a ...