Hello and welcome to A Thousand Natural Shocks of Ad With Money podcast.

I'm your host Gabe Dunn.

And this week on the show, we are diving deep into the history of capitalism.

And we are doing so with Sven Beckert, who is a professor at Harvard of history and economics.

And his book, Capitalism of Global History,

is an exploration of capitalism all the way back

from when it first started out of Yemen

and in the Puritan age in the U.S.

up until now.

And though that may seem daunting,

Sven is a very articulate and smart person

who has distilled all of this down into, as he says,

it's not for his history colleagues,

it's not for his economics colleagues,

it's not even for his students or for policymakers.

It is a book for us, the average person, to understand capitalism as a global phenomenon

and not something that is just happening in Eurocentric places.

And even on this show, we tend to focus on the U.S. specifically.

And I wanted to get into the topic on a more worldwide scale.

So please enjoy this interview.

It's very philosophical.

It's full of a lot of history that I think can be used to, how should I put this?

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