NATIONAL BESTSELLING Book about capitalism sparks conversations coast-to-coast about how to remake the American economy
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Washington, D.C. and Boulder, Colo.) – Capital Evolution: The New American Economy, co-authored by venture capitalist Seth Levine and financial journalist Elizabeth MacBride, launched this week onto the USA Today Bestseller List.
Capital Evolution gives voice to millions of Americans working at the grassroots to create a better, fairer, more dynamic economy. Capital Evolution offers evidence of an emerging movement to restore the middle class. This movement toward Dynamic Capitalism extends from consumers to business leaders, from tiny startups embracing the B Corp movement to CEOs of the world’s largest companies. This movement escapes notice in a media obsessed with politics, and yet the movement is powerful and growing.
Early reviews of the book, based on interviews with leaders including Jamie Dimon, Larry Fink, and Lisa Green Hall, say the authors accessibly cut through the noise with an analysis of how capitalism arrived at this juncture – and where it must go. For concerned consumers, emerging leaders, and company owners and executives, Capital Evolution offers the clarity and foresight this moment demands.
In launch week events at the World Bank Group Library and in Colorado, readers joined to flood the rooms with questions and ideas. In one of the biggest surprises, Capital Evolution is resonating among generations that have been labeled as disengaged, Millennials, and Gen Z. Optimism isn’t in style – except in these conversations, where practical ideas within business and government, including financial education, more employee ownership, and easier business starts, are emerging.
Capital Evolution: The New American Economy (Matt Holt – Dec. 2025) argues that capitalism can evolve, and is already moving toward a system based on principles of long-term orientation, rule of law, accounting for externalities, and the middle class. But the politicization of business and the concentration of power in a few giant businesses threaten this shift. Information disorder means that few people are even aware of the battle to shape a new American economy.
“Two of the brightest minds in business–venture capitalist Seth Levine and business journalist Elizabeth MacBride — offer some profound insights into how to build on what’s worked and fix what’s broken in their new book. If you believe that our economic system can become a force for good–one that helps all people and not just those who are already wealthy–you won’t want to miss it.” – Journalist Elaine Pofeldt
Levine and MacBride had an unexpected success with The New Builders, which drove policy changes and influenced $250B of government aid during the pandemic. Now, the writing team is emerging as a guide to the new economic center of America, as their recent op-eds in The New York Times and LA Times show.
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About the Authors of CAPITAL EVOLUTION
Elizabeth MacBride is an award-winning journalist and author whose work examines how capital, entrepreneurship, and innovation are reshaping economies in the United States and around the world. She is widely recognized for her groundbreaking reporting on business in the Middle East and emerging markets, where she documented new economic models. Drawing on decades of global reporting on finance, markets, and economic systems, MacBride brings a rare, on-the-ground perspective to the evolving relationship between business, government, and society. She is an advocate for a fairer financial system that expands opportunity, strengthens democratic capitalism, and increases women’s economic power.
A long-time venture capitalist, Seth Levine, works with venture funds and companies around the globe. His day job is as a partner at Foundry, a Boulder, CO-based venture capital firm with $4B in assets under management that he co-founded in 2006. He is also the co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of GoodBread, a small business lending platform, and co-founder of Pledge 1%, an organization that encourages companies to give back to their local communities, and which has generated over $3 billion in philanthropy since its founding 10 years ago. A passionate advocate for entrepreneurship and member of the board of directors at Macalester College, Seth spends time as an advisor to venture funds and companies around the world.