Foreword -- Prologue : the planet of the apes hypothesis -- The first power of civilizations -- Colonialism and the transatlantic slave trade -- The fossil fuel revolution -- Corporate capitalism -- Human development -- Epilogue

Introduction : The Covid-19 pandemic, international political economy and social reproduction / Matt Dow and Tim Di Muzio -- Global power, inequality, and climate change. "A once in a lifetime opportunity": Covid-19 in the age of finance / Richard H. Robbins -- The billionaire boom : capital as...

On December 3, 2024, Michael Hudson met with capital-as-power researchers Jonathan Nitzan, Tim Di Muzio, and Blair Fix to discuss the intersections between their two lines of research. What follows is a transcript of the conversation.