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In retrospect: Das Kapital

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As the world is reshaped by another industrial revolution, Gareth Stedman Jones revisits Karl Marx's opus.

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  1. Queen Mary, University of London, director of the Centre for History and Economics at the University of Cambridge, UK

    Gareth Stedman Jones

  2. King's College, Cambridge

    Gareth Stedman Jones

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