Brink Bites: How Have Attitudes Toward Capitalism Shifted?

The Brink highlighted research led by Jay Zagorsky and H. Sami Karaca, both faculty at BU Questrom School of Business and its Ravi K. Mehrotra Institute for Business, Markets, and Society, that used AI to scour 400,000 newspaper articles published over decades to index attitudes toward capitalism, communism, and socialism. The research did not find evidence that the sentiment of capitalism is being overtaken by socialism or communism.

Read the summarized findings in The Conversation and read the full published work on the Pew Research Center.