4.6 • 907 Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Huh. Have you ever wondered what a sandwich sounds like? |
| 0:04.0 | Not much to it, is there? |
| 0:06.0 | Unless, of course, it's a Walker's sandwich. |
| 0:10.0 | Mmm, that is good. Now that's what Asani should sound like. |
| 0:15.0 | Go all crisp in with walkers. |
| 0:18.0 | Delicious. |
| 0:20.0 | We live in capitalism like fish and water, |
| 0:21.8 | so it's very difficult to see it. |
| 0:23.6 | But the capitalist logic |
| 0:25.2 | is a radical departure |
| 0:26.4 | in previous human history. |
| 0:29.6 | And now the good fight |
| 0:31.4 | with Yasha Monk. |
| 0:42.3 | How did capitalism conquer the world? |
| 0:44.9 | Where did it originate? |
| 0:51.7 | And is it possible to tell its story in one long, that one volume work? |
| 0:59.4 | Well, Sven Beckett is the most prominent historian of what has come to be called global history. His last book, Empire of Cotton, won the Bancroft Award and was a finalist |
| 1:08.2 | for the Pulitzer Prize. But now he has set his eyes on an even more ambitious work, |
| 1:15.6 | called simply capitalism a global history. |
| 1:20.6 | In this book, Beckett argues that the origins of capitalism don't lie |
| 1:26.6 | in 18th or 19th century Manchester. |
| 1:30.6 | They go much further back than that. |
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