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1 week ago

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

The Harvard professor, who Zoomed in to talk to Fortune from his home office in Cambridge, Mass., explained that his new book, Capitalism: A Global History, is the product of an eight-year odyssey to seek understanding of the way we actually live out our economic lives. "Often, when I teach the history of capitalism here at Harvard, many of my students think that capitalism is kind of the state of nature."
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fromwww.theguardian.com
5 months ago

Everything Evolves by Mark Vellend review can Darwin explain JD Vance?

Physics explains inescapable natural laws while evolutionary historical contingency explains contingent outcomes across biology, culture, technology and institutions.
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