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Idea Capitalism Before Indust
Richard Grassby
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Description for Idea Capitalism Before Indust
Hardback. In this text, Richard Grassby investigates the origins and evolution of the idea of capitalism to illustrate for readers the true nature, merits and the future of capitalism. Series: Critical Issues in World and International History. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: KCS; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 295.
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, class formation, the decline of kinship and community, ... Read more
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, class formation, the decline of kinship and community, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
Series
Critical Issues in World and International History
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780847696321
SKU
V9780847696321
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About Richard Grassby
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).
Reviews for Idea Capitalism Before Indust
This book appears at a time when the bloody struggle between capitalism and socialism unexpectedly seems to have ended, and now we must wonder why capitalism triumphed and where it is leading us. . . . The result according to Grassby, is an idea that retains symbolic importance.
Richard F. Teichgraeber, Murphy Institute of Political Economy and Department of ... Read more
Richard F. Teichgraeber, Murphy Institute of Political Economy and Department of ... Read more