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Capitalism Is Not What You Think

CONFLICTED

An ex-Al Qaeda jihadi turned MI6 spy and a former monk turned filmmaker, have been embedded at the heart of conflicts in the Middle East. Together Aimen Dean and Thomas Small unpack the realities of war, fundamentalism and their global implications through first-hand experience.

In this Conflicted Conversation, Thomas speaks to Harvard professor Sven Beckert about his new book Capitalism: A Global History.

Sven explains:

 Why the history of capitalism matters for understanding the present

 How most histories of capitalism are too Eurocentric

 How merchant communities in the medieval Muslim world and other regions laid the foundations of capitalism

 How European merchants learned from and interacted with merchants in the Muslim world

 Trust networks in global trade, including family, religious, and city-based merchant networks

 How capitalism and state power grew together

 European divergence: why Europe became central to capitalism

 Effects of Ottoman control and European geopolitical weakness on Atlantic expansion

 Role of conquest, slavery, and colonial expansion in building capitalist societies

 Tension between capitalism’s drive for unlimited growth and nature’s limits

 Challenges to neoliberalism from the left and the populist right

Find Sven on Bluesky: @svenbeckert.bsky.social

Visit Sven’s personal website: svenbeckert.com

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Conflicted is a Message Heard production.

Executive Producers: Jake Warren & Max Warren.

This episode was produced and edited by Thomas Small.
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