How Capitalism Conquered the World
New Books in Economic and Business History | 28 April 2026 | 0h 53m | Listen Later 
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Interview with Trevor Jackson about his book The Insatiable Machine: How Capitalism Conquered the World. Considers how an economic system that was the result of largely uncoordinated and unplanned individual decisions came to dominate our modern world. Discusses the origins of the global monetary system in the fifteenth century and ends in the early twentieth century, when capitalism faced its most serious challenges from communism and socialism. Argues that capitalism is not natural, timeless, or inevitable.