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Sven Beckert is Laird Bell Professor of History at Harvard University, where he researches and teaches the history of the United States in the nineteenth century, with a particular emphasis on the history of capitalism, including its economic, social...

Christine Desan is the author of Making Money: Coin, Currency, and the Coming of Capitalism (Oxford University Press, 2014), a book arguing that capitalism took shape when societies radically transformed the way they engineered money, adopting bank-issued...

Invisible Giant: The Global Rise of Soy in the Twentieth Century Rachel completed her PhD in History in 2022. She is a scholar of the history of capitalism and commodities. Her research examines the political economy of commodity frontiers, and her...