300 Years of Critiquing Capitalism

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 12, 2025

John Cassidy, staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of Capitalism and Its Critics: A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI (Macmillan, 2025), traces the last three hundred years of global capitalism from its beginnings.

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