Thoughts on “Capitalism” episode of Open Source podcast (opens in new tab)

While catching up on podcast listening during the Christmas holidays, I listened to the Radio Open Source episode “A Thousand Years of Capitalism“, hosted by Christopher Lydon with guest Sven Beckert, history professor at Harvard University. The episode was a discussion of Beckert’s latest work, “Capitalism: A Global History”. I thought the discussion was excellent, and I found it interesting that he pegs the “start” of capitalism as an economic system to merchant businesses in Aden around 10...