Magisterial ... [Cassidy] sheds light on the feedback loop between theory and practice ... Deftly glossed ... Cassidy could not have predicted Donald Trump’s particular brand of tariff inanity, but he comes uncannily close when he speculates that globalism may be on its last legs ... His rewarding book provides an impressively lucid guide to a fascinating array of attempts to do so ... Subtle and sensitive.
Dense with information, free of jargon, and a powerful argument against an increasingly unsustainable economic system ... Sounds a subtle theme in his characterization of capitalism as it has developed over the past four centuries or so: It has always relied on compulsion.
Sweeping ... Offers a deft, thorough reading of Marx ... Cassidy’s masterful synthesis of history and biography serves to demonstrate that capitalism is in a permanent state of change not just because of its fundamental nature, but because of how it’s continuously being subjected to pushback. The result is a unique and invigorating view of capitalism’s history.
