"Sounds simple, sure. But when Sven Beckert shares this observation, just a few pages into Capitalism: A Global History, the Harvard professor is actually laying out a rather daunting challenge. Today's dominant world order so thoroughly dictates the logic of our day-to-day lives, and operates on a scale so far beyond our personal lived experience often even beyond our intellectual grasp that you may as well ask a tuna to see the Pacific Ocean."
"Hence Beckert's hefty tome which, at more than 1,000 pages before footnotes, cannot itself be accused of being difficult to see. In an effort to render capitalism visible, even legible, the decorated scholar traces the arc of this "most consequential revolution in world history" from its earliest burblings in the Middle East some 900 years ago, to the extraordinary concentration of wealth presently underway. There's no better companion for Black Friday this year."
Capitalism's logic pervades daily life and operates on a scale that often exceeds personal lived experience and intellectual grasp. Making capitalism visible requires tracing its long historical development, from early burblings in the Middle East roughly nine centuries ago to the contemporary extraordinary concentration of wealth. A comprehensive history of the system spans over a thousand pages yet remains accessible to non-economists and is described as magisterial, cogent, and far-reaching. The wider publishing calendar features other notable new releases across genres, including fiction, biography, and cultural histories such as the checkered past of the crossword.
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