America is a nation at war with its mythologies. For all the electoral postmortems about the desire for economic change, what’s unsurprisingly absent is what seems, to me, an obvious omission: an ...
Sven Beckert has spent nearly a decade trying to understand the 1,000-year-old thing that capitalism is. "This is a ...
No book has done more than Capital to explain the way the world works. Only a few centuries old, capitalism’s unprecedented mode of producing for human needs and generating wealth shapes present and ...
Ever since Eric Williams published his book Capitalism and Slavery, which demonstrated to those more inclined to weigh evidence rather than ideology that slavery was a crucial prop to the Industrial ...
NMAHMAI copy Purchased from the NMAH Library Endowment. Contents Foreword / by Marion Nestle -- Introduction : Do foodies need to understand capitalism? -- How our capitalist food system came to be -- ...
How do we understand Global Capitalism and the World We Live In? Sven Beckert, Capitalism: a global history, Allen Lane £50. Review by Dave McCrone These days, we are used to seeing hot-air books ...
British sociologist Simon Clarke was one of the most sophisticated analysts of how and why capitalist systems descend into crisis. Clarke’s work on the contradictions of capitalism is a valuable guide ...