Capitalism Global History by Harvard Historian Sven Beckert Misses the Mark - Bloomberg

Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world Americas+1 212 318 2000 EMEA+44 20 7330 7500 Asia Pacific+65 6212 1000 Kavish Animal spirits are what make innovation possible. Translate A big subject requires a big book — and few subjects are bigger than global capitalism. Karl Marx’s Das Kapital came to 3,000 pages in three volumes, and Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century to seven hundred pages. Now along comes Sven Beckert’s Capitalism: A Global History at 1,325 pages, reportedly one of the longest books ever produced by Penguin Press. Beckert’s ambition is as big as his page count. A professor of history at Harvard University, he wants to shake up the historiography of the field. Previous historians have peered at the subject through nationalist or at least Anglo-Saxon spectacles. He wants to provide a global history that

Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world Americas+1 212 318 2000 EMEA+44 20 7330 7500 Asia Pacific+65 6212 1000 Kavish Animal spirits are what make innovation possible. Translate A big subject requires a big book — and few subjects are bigger than global capitalism. Karl Marx’s Das Kapital came to 3,000 pages in three volumes, and Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century to seven hundred pages. Now along comes Sven Beckert’s Capita