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Trevor Jackson is one of our most laser-eyed critics of the mystifications wrapped around today's market society. Now he gives us a look back across the centuries with a vexed message--capitalism is insatiable but it is not inevitable.--Quinn Slobodian, author of Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy The Insatiable Machine provides a remarkably wide-ranging history of how capitalism came to be the global norm, through invention, violence, empire, and the unexpected consequences of myriad decisions. Now, Trevor Jackson argues, its environmental effects will destroy the world it created. His lucid, hugely knowledgeable tour through four centuries can help us think about what the future might be.--Joshua B. Freeman, author of Behemoth Capitalism has finally vanquished the world. From Beijing to Moscow to Mecca, the markets rule. And yet, this story has not turned out like it was supposed to. Whether one is for or against capitalism, or simply on the fence, we all need to engage with Trevor Jackson's monumental and passionate indictment of the economic system that has created incomparable wealth and innovation, but has gutted the democratic systems and planet that sustained it. The Insatiable Machine is a dramatic, brilliant, and even tragically entertaining overview of capitalism's epic rise and triumph.--Jacob Soll, author of Free Market

The Insatiable Machine provides a remarkably wide-ranging history of how capitalism came to be the global norm, through invention, violence, empire, and the unexpected consequences of myriad decisions. Now, Trevor Jackson argues, its environmental effects will destroy the world it created. His lucid, hugely knowledgeable tour through four centuries can help us think about what the future might be.--Joshua B. Freeman, author of Behemoth Capitalism has finally vanquished the world. From Beijing to Moscow to Mecca, the markets rule. And yet, this story has not turned out like it was supposed to. Whether one is for or against capitalism, or simply on the fence, we all need to engage with Trevor Jackson's monumental and passionate indictment of the economic system that has created incomparable wealth and innovation, but has gutted the democratic systems and planet that sustained it. The Insatiable Machine is a dramatic, brilliant, and even tragically entertaining overview of capitalism's epic rise and triumph.--Jacob Soll, author of Free Market

Trevor Jackson is one of our most laser-eyed critics of the mystifications wrapped around today's market society. Now he gives us a look back across the centuries with a vexed message--capitalism is insatiable, but it is not inevitable.--Quinn Slobodian, author of Crack-Up Capitalism Nowhere else will you find a guide through the rise and rise of capitalism that is at once so rigorous in conceptualization yet breezy in style; comprehensive in breadth yet attentive to telling detail.--Gabriel Winant, author of The Next Shift A monumental and passionate indictment of the economic system that has created incomparable wealth and innovation but has gutted the democratic systems and planet that sustained it. The Insatiable Machine is a dramatic, brilliant, and even tragically entertaining overview of capitalism's epic rise and triumph.--Jacob Soll, author of Free Market The Insatiable Machine provides a remarkably wide-ranging history of how capitalism came to be the global norm, through invention, violence, empire, and the unexpected consequences of myriad decisions. Now, Trevor Jackson argues, its environmental effects will destroy the world it created. His lucid, hugely knowledgeable tour through four centuries can help us think about what the future might be.--Joshua B. Freeman, author of Behemoth

""Capitalism has finally vanquished the world. From Beijing to Moscow to Mecca, the markets rule. And yet, this story has not turned out like it was supposed to. Whether one is for or against capitalism, or simply on the fence, we all need to engage with Trevor Jackson’s monumental and passionate indictment of the economic system that has created incomparable wealth and innovation, but has gutted the democratic systems and planet that sustained it. The Insatiable Machine is a dramatic, brilliant, and even tragically entertaining overview of capitalism’s epic rise and triumph."" -- Jacob Soll, author of Free Market

A lucid history that invites readers to consider how human life might be organized otherwise--no easy task.-- ""Kirkus Reviews"" Trevor Jackson is one of our most laser-eyed critics of the mystifications wrapped around today's market society. Now he gives us a look back across the centuries with a vexed message--capitalism is insatiable, but it is not inevitable.--Quinn Slobodian, author of Crack-Up Capitalism Nowhere else will you find a guide through the rise and rise of capitalism that is at once so rigorous in conceptualization yet breezy in style; comprehensive in breadth yet attentive to telling detail.--Gabriel Winant, author of The Next Shift A monumental and passionate indictment of the economic system that has created incomparable wealth and innovation but has gutted the democratic systems and planet that sustained it. The Insatiable Machine is a dramatic, brilliant, and even tragically entertaining overview of capitalism's epic rise and triumph.--Jacob Soll, author of Free Market The Insatiable Machine provides a remarkably wide-ranging history of how capitalism came to be the global norm, through invention, violence, empire, and the unexpected consequences of myriad decisions. Now, Trevor Jackson argues, its environmental effects will destroy the world it created. His lucid, hugely knowledgeable tour through four centuries can help us think about what the future might be.--Joshua B. Freeman, author of Behemoth

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Trevor Jackson is an economic historian at University of California, Berkeley, who also writes for The New York Review of Books, The Nation, Dissent, and The Baffler. He is the author of a monograph, Impunity and Capitalism. He lives in Berkeley, California.

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