Jacobin on MSN

Sven Beckert’s history of capitalism is too light on theory

Joseph Schumpeter famously summarized the achievement of capitalism in his 1942 book, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, ...
The New Republic

The Historian Who Wants to Imagine an Alternative to Capitalism

Trevor Jackson traces the “dumb, inhuman logic” of endless growth over hundreds of years, and gestures at a better world.
AOL

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 isn’t here to judge capitalism, even though he just wrote a provocative, ambitious, 1,300-page book on its history. As he writes several times in the book (which this editor has read), he ...
The Boston Globe

Is everything you ever learned about capitalism wrong?

Among the scourges of racial oppression, 17th-century Barbados was an island unto itself, a British colony that operated on its own insidious principles, turbo-charging vast wealth on the bodies of ...
NPR

A history of capitalism, told through its critics (Planet Money+)

In today's bonus episode, Mary Childs talks with John Cassidy, a staff writer at The New Yorker, about his new book, "Capitalism and Its Critics: A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI." In ...