A Brief History of Commercial Capitalism

Spanning centuries and continents, this short work fundamentally reconfigures our view of the rise of capitalism on the world stage.

Jairus Banaji spent most of his academic life at Oxford. He has been a Research Associate in the Department of Development Studies, SOAS, University of London, for the past several years. He is the author of Agrarian Change in Late Antiquity (Oxford, 2007), Theory as History (Haymarket Books, 2011) -- for which he won the prestigious Isaac and Tamara Deutsche Memorial Prize -- and numerous other volumes and articles.