The Idea of Capitalism before the Industrial Revolution
Invented in post-industrial 19th century Europe, the idea of capitalism originally sought to describe and explain the distinctive characteristics of an emerging modern world. Since then, capitalism has served to identify an economic system, a particular social structure, and a set of cultural values and mental attitudes. The subject of continuous debate among scholars for more than a century, capitalism has been accorded so many definitions, it is now virtually meaningless. Depending upon the interpreter, capitalism is synonymous with the market economy, the division of labor, credit creation, economic concentration, social polarization, clas…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8476-9633-8
- EAN: 9780847696338
- Produktnummer: 1377865
- Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
- Seitenangabe: 98 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.5 cm 156 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 156
Über den Autor
Former Oxford Professor, Woodrow Wilson International Center Fellow, and current member at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Richard Grassby has written several books on economic history-most recently, Kinship and Capitalism (Cambridge ) and The Business Community of Seventeenth Century England (Cambridge).
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