The Insatiable Machine – How Capitalism Conquered the World - Trevor Jackson

Today, virtually the entire world lives under the economic system called capitalism and most people alive have never known another. But as Trevor Jackson argues, it wasn’t always capitalism, it didn’t have to be capitalism and capitalism didn’t have to be this way. How did it happen? With a firm grasp on history and economics and a keen eye for the telling anecdote, Jackson explains the rise of capitalism from the discovery of the New World to the First World War. A fast-paced work of global... Zobrazit více