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Sven Beckert’s Capitalism: A Global History offers a sweeping account of capitalism’s development and encourages readers to reconsider both its contested origins and its far-reaching effects on social, political, and cultural institutions. More to the point, however, are the questions central to this lecture: Was the rise of capitalism inevitable, and what economic and social arrangements might replace capitalism when, as is true of all things, it passes onto “the ash heap of history?”
George Ovitt has given Oasis talks for 15 years. He teaches history at Albuquerque Academy.