What Are the Limits of Capitalism?

What is within the power of free markets? What can capitalism do for society, what can’t it do, and what should it do? On this episode of the Chicago Booth Review Podcast, Booth’s John Paul Rollert explores how many people came to have an unshakeable faith in capitalism’s broad ability to solve nearly any problem, while the experience of others has left them skeptical. In the era after “the end of history,” capitalism’s defenders need to reckon earnestly with a series of questions about what the system may leave unresolved, he says.