The Insatiable Machine: How Capitalism Conquered the World

Today, a vast majority of us live under the economic system called capitalism-it touches almost every aspect of our lives, and most people alive have never known another. Yet, a cursory look at the world around us reveals that things can't stay this way forever: an economy built on infinite amassing and consumption of resources is at odds with a finite planet. How did this happen? As the economic historian Trevor Jackson argues in this powerful book,It wasn't always capitalism, it didn't ha...