Money and Markets: Essays in Honour of Martin Daunton. Edited byJulian Hoppit, Duncan Needham, and Adrian Leonard. Woodbridge, U.K.: Boydell & Brewer, 2019. xiv + 294 pp. Illustrations. Paper, $25.95. ISBN: 978-1-78327-445-1 (original) (raw)

Business History Review, 2021

Abstract

Susan B. Anthony. Apart from that criticism, Laid Waste!makes for a compelling read, illuminating how “the culture of exploitation” was constructed as Americans’ “incremental choices, brick by brick, produced the edifice of modernization, advanced its claims of inevitability, and erased the evidence of people ever having seen another way” (p. 230). Casting his narrative forthrightly as a moral tale, Larson asks readers to reconsider this ethically compromised and increasingly unsustainable mode of life. Part revisionist corrective and part jeremiad, the book provides a timely critique of American capitalism, from its deep roots to its myriad outstretched branches.

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