Sven Beckert has spent nearly a decade trying to understand the 1,000-year-old thing that capitalism is. “This is a human-created order.” ...
“In History Departments, It’s Up With Capitalism,” ran a New York Times headline in April 2013. The article discussed the sharp increase in scholarship and teaching about the history of capitalism in ...
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Historian and Harvard University professor Sven Beckert recently published his own contribution to the debate, Capitalism: A Global History, in which he weaves together various strands of historical ...
A new book outlines the intertwined history of capitalism and democracy in the United States, and why pragmatism has outweighed ideology. The United States has always been a beacon of hope for ...
Enemies of unfettered capitalism, unite! For as long as I can remember, people on the left have complained about “unfettered capitalism.” Moderate liberals do it, and of course flat-out Marxists do it ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Capitalism: A Global History is an exhaustive and exhausting economic history of the last thousand years, told ...
Dr. Samuel Gregg was a Visiting Fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies. Study of slavery’s role in shaping economic life in America is essential if we are to ...
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