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Welcome to A History of Capitalism, a narrative history podcast about how capitalism as we know it came to be. Tune in biweekly for an epic story spanning from the Black Death to Black Mondays and everything in between.
Moving and storing information has always been vital to economic development. In this episode, we will turn to the story of the printing press, why it triggered the information revolution which was essential to capitalism's rise, and how it transformed economics from the ground up just as the Dutch, English, Portuguese, and Spanish were laying the foundations of global empires.
The Erotic Engine: How Pornography has Powered Mass Communication, from Gutenberg to Google by Patchen Barss “Information Technology and Economic Change: The Impact of the Printing Press”, by Jeremiah E. Dittmar, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2011, Vol. 126 A Short History of the Printing Press by Robert Hoe Paper: Paging Through History by Mark Kurlansky Theatre of the book, 1480-1880 : print, text, and performance in Europe by Julie Stone Peters
A History of Capitalism
Welcome to A History of Capitalism, a narrative history podcast about how capitalism as we know it came to be. Tune in biweekly for an epic story spanning from the Black Death to Black Mondays and everything in between.
