Description: A concise, colorful, and convincing account of capitalism's rise to global dominance.
Brief description: Trevor Jackson is an economic historian at University of California, Berkeley, who also writes for The New York Review of Books, The Nation, Dissent, and The Baffler. He is the author of a monograph, Impunity and Capitalism. He lives in Berkeley, California.
Review Quotes: Jackson is a lucid and engaging writer, demonstrating a mastery of this fast-growing field. . . . What truly sets The Insatiable Machine apart from a crowded field, however, is the incisiveness of [his] analysis. Wry, knowing, and with little patience for too-neat explanations or just-so bromides, Jackson darts nimbly from epoch to epoch, crisis to crisis, bringing sense and satisfaction to some five centuries of history.--Scott W. Stern "New Republic"