‘Capitalism Is a Series of Regime Changes’
· 48 min
Episode ‘Capitalism Is a Series of Regime Changes’
Another week and another Angry Planet about the horrifying systems that rule our lives.
Is there a depressive theme running through the work right now? Possibly. I promise we’ll soon replace it with rage.
This week on the show we have Sven Beckert to talk about his new book Capitalism: A Global History. Beckert is a professor of history at Harvard and his tome is an attempt to capture the entire history of an economic system in one book. It’s a doorstop, but it’s also readable and clear-eyed. Some come with me on a journey that runs through the plantations of South Carolina to the tech markets of Shenzhen.
• Cotton as an entry point to the history of capitalism • The economic big bang • Industrial Revolution as mutation • “It’s still being born.” • Human data is oil to be fracked • The Quaker Oats metaphor • “The market is God.” • Ascribing morality to economics • When Gary Hart ushered in Neoliberalism • “Capitalism is a series of regime changes.” • Moments of great change offer opportunities
Capitalism: A Global History
The Old Order Is Dead. Do Not Resuscitate.
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