Secret History #15 – Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse

In this Tuesday, November 4, 2025 lecture to his Beijing high school students, Professor Jiang explains how the Bronze Age global trade network was a proto-capitalistic system, and therefore bound to collapse hard and fast.

Notes and References:
1. Debt by David Graeber
2. 1177 BC by Eric H. Cline
3. Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
4. “Power Causes Brain Damage” in the Atlantic Monthly:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/07/power-causes-brain-damage/528711/

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