{"podcast":{"title":"New Books in Economics","slug":"new-books-in-economics-614217","podcast_index_feed_id":614217,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/LIT6811763985","website_url":"https://newbooksnetwork.com/category/politics-society/economics/","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/fdf6c180-ef85-11e8-aee2-1b359e8e3c30/image/df38cff333f92d4425c61c7dba8af9ad.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"New Books Network","episode_count":1544,"summary":"This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: ⁠newbooksnetwork.com⁠ Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: ⁠https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/⁠ Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/economics","last_synced_at":"2026-06-13T08:19:48.278656+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-economics-614217"},"episode":{"title":"Trevor Jackson, \"The Insatiable Machine: How Capitalism Conquered the World\" (Norton, 2026)","slug":"trevor-jackson-the-insatiable-machine-how-capitalism-conquered-the-world-norton-2026","published_at":"2026-04-28T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-economics-614217/trevor-jackson-the-insatiable-machine-how-capitalism-conquered-the-world-norton-2026","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-economics-614217","url":"https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK6952831690.mp3?updated=1777349527","audio_url":"https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK6952831690.mp3?updated=1777349527","summary":"How did an economic system that was the result of largely uncoordinated and unplanned individual decisions come to dominate our modern world? This is the core question that my guest, Berkeley economic historian Trevor Jackson, tries to answer in his new book, The Insatiable Machine: How Capitalism Conquered the World (Norton, 2026). Jackson begins with the origins of the global monetary system in the fifteenth century and ends in the early twentieth century, when capitalism faced its most serious challenges from communism and socialism. While wage labor and financial instruments like loans and stocks feel unremarkable today, he reminds us that “it wasn’t always this way.” Capitalism is not natural, timeless, or inevitable. Trevor Jackson is an economic historian at the University of California, Berkeley. He previous book, Impunity and Capitalism: The Afterlives of European Financial Crises, 1690–1830, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2022. Steven P. Rodriguez is a scholarly publishing professional and historian. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/economics","meta_description":"How did an economic system that was the result of largely uncoordinated and unplanned individual decisions come to dominate our modern world? This is the…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3345,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/new-books-in-economics-614217/episodes/trevor-jackson-the-insatiable-machine-how-capitalism-conquered-the-world-norton-2026/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-economics-614217/trevor-jackson-the-insatiable-machine-how-capitalism-conquered-the-world-norton-2026.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}