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Capitalism

A Global History
  • Sven Beckert
2025
Penguin Press

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  • Book Review

    Capitalism’s Long Revolution

    What happens to our understanding of capitalism when we assume that it might not come to an end?
    by Corey Robin via The Nation
    This publication restricts nonsubscriber access to some or all of its articles.
    on May 11, 2026
  • Industrial smokestacks crowd a port city.
    Q&A

    Capitalism Had a Beginning and Will Someday End

    On where the capitalist system came from, what keeps it alive, and what it would take to bring it down.
    by Sven Beckert, Loren Balhorn via Jacobin
    This publication restricts nonsubscriber access to some or all of its articles.
    on April 1, 2026
  • A port city in the 1600s.
    Book Review

    Sven Beckert’s Chronicle of Capitalism’s Long Rise

    Capitalism is a global economic system, so a proper chronicle of its rise to dominance has to examine the entire world.
    by Nelson Lichtenstein via Jacobin
    This publication restricts nonsubscriber access to some or all of its articles.
    on December 4, 2025
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