Useful survey history

Review essay of Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century by Jeffry Frieden

This is a good book if you want an overview of the basics of global capitalism’s development, the world economic system that emerged during the last 250 years. A history like this can reach many conclusions, from triumphalism to normative polemic; they might mix ideology and hidden biases, perhaps even rejecting the whole system for a hypothetical or ut…