This Harvard professor spent 8 years traveling the world researching the secret history of capitalism and how ‘marginal’ and ‘weak’ it used to be
Fortune
byNick Lichtenberg
Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 01:30 PM

Sven Beckert has spent nearly a decade trying to understand the 1,000-year-old thing that capitalism is. "This is a human-created order."
Sven Beckert isnt here to judge capitalism, even though he just wrote a provocative, ambitious, 1,300-page book on its history. As he writes several times in the book (which this editor has read), he… [+9427 chars]
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Fortune
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