Trevor Jackson
Economic historian and professor at the University of California, Berkeley, author of The Insatiable Machine: How Capitalism Conquered the World (Norton, 2026) and Impunity and Capitalism (2022).
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Apr 28, 2026 • 56min
Trevor Jackson, "The Insatiable Machine: How Capitalism Conquered the World" (Norton, 2026)
Trevor Jackson, an economic historian at UC Berkeley and author of recent books on capitalism, traces how marketization, colonial silver flows, slavery, industrial energy, and financial instruments reshaped the modern world. He discusses why capitalism is neither natural nor inevitable. Short, clear takes on global origins, environmental costs, and the choices behind writing history for general readers.
Apr 28, 2026 • 56min
Trevor Jackson, "The Insatiable Machine: How Capitalism Conquered the World" (Norton, 2026)
Trevor Jackson, an economic historian at UC Berkeley and author of The Insatiable Machine, traces capitalism from 15th-century monetary origins to early 20th-century challenges. He covers monetization, colonial silver, slavery’s role in enriching elites, industrial energy use and environmental change, and why capitalism is neither natural nor inevitable.
