Capitalism: A Global History — the accumulation machine
Sven Beckert’s epic history of trade identifies the ceaseless generation of wealth as the driving force behind capitalism’s success
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In defence of the rich — and other new economic books
Critiques of free-market capitalism, plus an argument for letting private companies own, buy and sell land on other planets
US GDP: still ultimately about the consumer
Plus central bank hold ’em
The essence of economics
Why write about markets at all?
The case for trade, remade
There are good reasons to believe it is likely to follow the rewiring of global finance earlier this century
In trade’s ‘law of the jungle’, the winners are clear
It is China and the US that prosper when power sets the terms for global commerce
America’s new ‘patriotic’ capitalism
In the land of the (supposedly) free markets, government stakes and price controls are met with silence on Wall Street