S7 E5: A New Thing in Human History

Scene on Radio: Capitalism

Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University

Society & Culture, Audiodoc, Radio, Documentary, Stories

4.9 • 11K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

An age of invention and mass production, propelled by a new mechanism – the corporate research lab – leads to a surge in material wealth like the world has never seen. How does a new nation, the United States, overtake its parent as the leader of the surging capitalist order? And what does it all mean in the lives of ordinary people?

By John Biewen, with co-host Ellen McGirt. Interviews with Woody Holton, Robin Alario, Edward Baptist, and Brad DeLong. Story editor: Loretta Williams. Music by Michelle Osis, Lilli Haydn, Alex Symcox, and Goodnight, Lucas. Music consulting by Joe Augustine of Narrative Music. Art by Gergo Varga and Harper Biewen. "Capitalism” is a production of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, in partnership with Imperative 21.

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0:00.0	I'm David Remnickin each week on the New Yorker radio hour. My colleagues and I
0:04.8	unpack what's happening in a very complicated world. You'll hear from the New
0:09.2	Yorker's award-winning reporters and thinkers,
0:11.7	Gilani Cobb on race and justice,
0:14.0	Jill Lepore on American history,
0:16.0	Vincent Cunningham and Gia Tolantino on culture,
0:19.0	Bill McKibbon on climate change and many more.
0:22.0	To get the context behind events in the news, climate change and many more.
0:22.5	To get the context behind events in the news,
0:25.3	listen to the New Yorker radio hour,
0:27.5	wherever you get your podcast.
0:31.4	John, the year 1776 has come up a couple of times in our series.
0:36.0	1776, yes, important stuff happened that year, capitalism wise.
0:42.0	I'll say, Adam Smith's big book came out so did the new and
0:46.7	improved James Watson mention but there was one other event worth mentioning
0:51.3	yes there was.
0:53.6	And we've explored the American Revolution before on this show, most directly in season
0:58.7	four, our series on Democracy in the U.S. and why we don't have more of it.
1:05.0	The Land that Never Has Been Yet.
1:08.0	John, I love that series title for a variety of reasons.
1:11.0	It really speaks to me. I like it too. And thank you,
1:14.9	Langston Hughes. It's a line from his great poem, Let America Be America
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