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View all search resultsThe Japanese author says he appreciates Southern writers such as William Faulkner, with their keen eye for detail and critical standpoint. He said that he learned much from them, including writing about people, and that they influenced him as much as F. Scott Fitzgerald, the acclaimed author of the "The Great Gatsby."
Since the first industrial revolution in 1753, capitalism has accelerated the growth of the world’s economy by 3 to 4 percent a year from a global gross domestic product (GDP) of US$450 billion to $90 trillion in 2015, according to the World Bank.
A contract signed by Karl Marx for the publication of the French version of "Capital", his ground-breaking study of capitalism, sold at auction in Paris for a record 121,600 euros ($138,145), five times the expected price.
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