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What Could A Better Economy Look Like?

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The Importance of Storytelling

James Parisow is the author of How America Became Capitalist, Imperial Expansion and the Conquest of the West. The book looks at how capitalism took off in the U.S., but it took over 200 years for it to really happen. In fact, many early American settlers did not want to be completely dependent on the market. James: What does this slow transition teach us about our future economic transitions? I think it's something about the way that whenever we live in a certain time period, we take everything as natural.

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