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work_4xv3wrtpo5d6zj5fguh56sgikq	Brian P. Luskey	Accounting for Capitalism: The World the Clerk Made. By Michael Zakim. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. ix + 247 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-97797-3	2018.0	3	.pdf	application/pdf	1328	103	57	Accounting for Capitalism: The World the Clerk Made. Michael Zakim's new book is an exemplar of recent scholarship on American capitalism in the nineteenth century. Zakim finds capital's history in unlikely places, from material capitalism and American society. Capitalism, Zakim explains, constituted an economic and social Clerks' work made the flow of capital and credit legible and, in cultural terms, legitimate. health risks of hunching over desks in service to capital's commands. Capital made men in subtler and more fundamental ways, too. sense of them, Zakim contends persuasively that identity was prepackaged in and by capital's industrializing processes. "human capital," Zakim's summation of capitalist transformation's Americans and their society before the Civil War, and Zakim's book constitutes a broad-gauged examination of agency and its absence in The Moral Economists is a highly impressive but also very curious book. author Tim Rogan, this is best looked for in the social choice work of https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms	./cache/work_4xv3wrtpo5d6zj5fguh56sgikq.pdf	./txt/work_4xv3wrtpo5d6zj5fguh56sgikq.txt