If the senses have a history, as Karl Marx wrote, then that history is inseparable from the development of capitalism, which has both taken advantage of the senses and influenced how sensory ...

Join Sven Beckert (Harvard) and Alessandro Stanziani (EHESS) to discuss their new books on the global history of capitalism: ‘Capitalism: A Global History’ and ‘Earth Capital: The Long History of ...

AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman. As we continue our look at Big Tech and the internet, we’re joined by author Malcolm Harris. He has ...

David Suisman specializes in cultural history, war & society, the history of music, sound studies, and the history of capitalism. His scholarly interests also include media studies, the history of the ...

“Any book about capitalism that begins almost 900 years ago in the port city of Aden, in what is now Yemen, promises a new story,” said Marcus Rediker in The New York Times. Harvard historian Sven ...

One of the joys of Capitalism and Its Critics, John Cassidy’s unexpectedly lively romp through the two-and-a-half-century history of capitalism, is its fine sense for dramatic reversals. Nearly a ...

Unlike the propagandists that publish most of the textbooks that we brainwash our children with in the US, reality-based historians have oft observed that the history of civilization is a history of ...

From Cornell University Professors Louis Hyman and Edward E. Baptist, a collection of the most relevant readings on the history of capitalism in America, created to accompany their EdX course ...

One’s own experience can be a terrible guide, when it comes to trying to understand capitalism. What should we examine ...

Sven Beckert isn’t here to judge capitalism, even though he just wrote a provocative, ambitious, 1,300-page book on its history. As he writes several times in the book (which this editor has read), he ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Author, professor and founder. Deeply curious about leadership. Churchill once quipped that democracy was “the worst form of ...

Harvard historian Sven Beckert’s 1,300-page Capitalism: A Global History relentlessly critiques capitalism’s alleged failings. But if capitalism is so flawed, why does it stand alone as the world’s ...