Episode 10: Global, Global, Gone

We're going to talk about the 19th century economy over the next few weeks. It was in the 19th century that you get something like a global economy. Why? Today we take a quick look at how factories, finance and the firm knit the world together, only to collapse with the start of the First World War. Books: The Cambridge History of Capitalism The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain Eric Hobsbawm, Age of Revolution and Age of Capital and Age of Empire Richard Grossman, Unsettled Account Thomas McGraw, ed., Creating Modern Capitalism