Author

Sven Beckert

3 books, mostly cultural social issues, for Blackstone Audio, Inc. and HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books, 2014–2025

Sven Beckert is a German-American historian and Laird Bell Professor of History at Harvard University whose writing focuses on capitalism and its economic, social, political, and global dimensions. His books include The Monied Metropolis, Empire of Cotton, Slavery's Capitalism, and Capitalism: A Global History. His work combines economic, labor, social, and transnational history, and Empire of Cotton won major history prizes and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.