{"id":632,"date":"2026-01-24T06:22:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T06:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/01\/24\/capitalism-by-sven-beckert-review-an-extraordinary-history-of-the-economic-system-that-controls-our-lives-history-books-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T06:22:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T06:22:03","slug":"capitalism-by-sven-beckert-review-an-extraordinary-history-of-the-economic-system-that-controls-our-lives-history-books-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/01\/24\/capitalism-by-sven-beckert-review-an-extraordinary-history-of-the-economic-system-that-controls-our-lives-history-books-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitalism by Sven Beckert review \u2013 an extraordinary history of the economic system that controls our lives | History books | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>If Adam Smith was wrong to see capitalism as human nature manifest, then Beckert overcorrects by presenting it as anti-human: a \u201crogue artificial intelligence\u201d, an invasive species, an alien force, a supernatural hunger. It is insatiable and unkillable. Beckert calls his book an \u201cactor-centred history\u201d about a phenomenon \u201cmade by people\u201d, but it is ultimately a kind of horror story about a monster that eats men.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2025\/dec\/23\/capitalism-by-sven-beckert-review-an-extraordinary-history-of-the-economic-system-that-controls-our-lives\">www.theguardian.com\/books\/2025\/dec\/23\/capitalism-by-sven-beckert-review-an-extraordinary-history-of-the-economic-system-that-controls-our-lives<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Adam Smith was wrong to see capitalism as human nature manifest, then Beckert overcorrects by presenting it as anti-human: a \u201crogue artificial intelligence\u201d, an invasive species, an alien force, a supernatural hunger. It is insatiable and unkillable. Beckert calls his book an \u201cactor-centred history\u201d about a phenomenon \u201cmade by people\u201d, but it is ultimately [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,80,63],"class_list":["post-632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-books","tag-capitalism","tag-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}