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Podcast: The Prospect Podcast
Episode: Sven Beckert: How capitalism made the world
Description: Is capitalism inevitable? This week, Prospect contributing editor Tom Clark is joined by Sven Beckert, Harvard professor and author of Capitalism: A Global History.Sven discusses the evolution of capitalism, from its development by Arab, African and Chinese traders, to its place in the modern western nation states of today. He argues that the economic system that rules our lives is a man-made one, which can be shaped and reshaped depending on political and economic will.The pair also discuss the prospects for working people in an era in which AI threatens to mak...