India, April 3 -- To understand capitalism, we need to be able to see it. This is difficult. Many people believe we can understand capitalism from our own experiences, which makes sense, considering how powerfully it structures our individual lives. Unfortunately, our own experience is a terrible guide. We see only a tiny part of capitalism at any given moment, and we miss the vast story in time and space in which it is embedded. Understanding capitalism from our own experience is like taking a movie frame and looking at one detail, then trying to deduce the movie's plot from that particularity. While such a strategy might lead to some insights, even good ones, it is highly unlikely to help us understand the whole. Capitalism as a planeta...