The Insatiable Machine

A concise, colourful and convincing account of capitalism’s rise to global dominance

"Compact and vivid... Jackson has written a smoothly readable account [of capitalism] while sacrificing none of its complexity."

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.