This workshop maps the forces reshaping the world economy in four introductory, engaging seminars. You will begin with Wolfgang Streeck's Taking Back Control?, which argues that the age of globalism is giving way to a renewed struggle over the nation-state and its powers. You will then turn to Branko Milanovic's Capitalism, Alone, which contrasts the West's liberal meritocratic capitalism with China's state-led model and asks what their rivalry means for inequality and globalization. The final seminar examines the forces driving these changes, from the rise of finance and rentier income to the derisking state and the digital revolution that is concentrating wealth in a handful of superstar cities and firms. Throughout, you will learn to read today's economic upheavals as part of a longer transformation of capitalism.