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EPISODE · Apr 4, 2026 · 32 MIN

What was life like before capitalism?

from The New Statesman Podcast, Subscriber Only Edition

It's almost impossible to separate how we think about modern life from the phenomenon that is capitalism, and to think, what would life look like without it? Tanjil Rashid is joined by Sven Beckert, Professor of History at Harvard University and author of Capitalism: A Global History, to trace the long emergence of capitalism, and to ask what the world looked like before it took hold.

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