New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2022. Selected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2022: Economics. Drawing on newly uncovered archival material from Britain and Italy, much of it translated for the first time, The Capital Order offers a groundbreaking examination of austerity's dark intellectual origins. The author reveals how the threat of working-class power in the years after World War I animated a set of top-down economic policies that imposed a rigid economic hierarchy across their societies.