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A brilliant writer with a polymathic range. With The Anxious Triumph, he has produced a magnum opus, an accessible and genuinely global history of the transformative but unstable capitalist phenomenon. ... This is a book for today and tomorrow. -- Harold James * Financial Times *
It is hugely erudite: everyone can learn from it. -- Paul Collier * New Statesman *
Sassoon offers us a sprawling map, studded with fascinating details. ... It is quirkily brilliant -- Adam Tooze * Guardian *
He is no apologist. His comprehensive account of the origins of modern capitalism make clear the human cost of a system of institutionalised greed -- Iain Macwhirter * Herald *

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      Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
      Publication Date: 25/03/2021
      ISBN13: 9780141986555, 978-0141986555
      ISBN10: 0141986557
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      Business, Finance & Law Economic systems and structures History General and world history Globalization

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      A brilliant writer with a polymathic range. With The Anxious Triumph, he has produced a magnum opus, an accessible and genuinely global history of the transformative but unstable capitalist phenomenon. ... This is a book for today and tomorrow. -- Harold James * Financial Times *
      It is hugely erudite: everyone can learn from it. -- Paul Collier * New Statesman *
      Sassoon offers us a sprawling map, studded with fascinating details. ... It is quirkily brilliant -- Adam Tooze * Guardian *
      He is no apologist. His comprehensive account of the origins of modern capitalism make clear the human cost of a system of institutionalised greed -- Iain Macwhirter * Herald *

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