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Capitalism
Jürgen Kocka
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Geschichte
Beschreibung
A comprehensive and concise history of capitalism from its origins to today
In this authoritative and accessible book, one of the world's most renowned historians provides a concise and comprehensive history of capitalism within a global perspective from its medieval origins to the 2008 financial crisis and beyond. From early commercial capitalism in the Arab world, China, and Europe, to nineteenth- and twentieth-century industrialization, to today’s globalized financial capitalism, Jürgen Kocka offers an unmatched account of capitalism, one that weighs its great achievements against its great costs, crises, and failures. Based on intensive research, the book puts the rise of capitalist economies in social, political, and cultural context, and shows how their current problems and foreseeable future are connected to a long history.
Sweeping in scope, the book describes how capitalist expansion was connected to colonialism; how industrialism brought unprecedented innovation, growth, and prosperity but also increasing inequality; and how managerialism, financialization, and globalization later changed the face of capitalism. The book also addresses the idea of capitalism in the work of thinkers such as Marx, Weber, and Schumpeter, and chronicles how criticism of capitalism is as old as capitalism itself, fed by its persistent contradictions and recurrent emergencies.
Authoritative and accessible, Capitalism is an enlightening account of a force that has shaped the modern world like few others.
Kundenbewertungen
Wage, Calculation, Workforce, Laborer, Unfree labour, Agriculture, Bourgeoisie, Manufacturing, Institution, Market (economics), Criticism of capitalism, Currency, Welfare, Employment, Mixed economy, Stock exchange, Criticism, Joint-stock company, Economic history, Precious metal, Financial transaction, Investment fund, Merchant capitalism, The Communist Manifesto, Market economy, War economy, Partnership, State formation, Economic policy, Competition, War, Capital requirement, Income, Vertical integration, World economy, Economic interventionism, Finance capitalism, Moral economy, Financial services, Plantation economy, Slavery, Raw material, Division of labour, Imperialism, Wage Labour and Capital, Entrepreneurship, Trading company, Commodity, Shareholder, Capital market, Economic forces, Politics, Factory, Economic inequality, Price mechanism, Economy, Industrialisation, State-owned enterprise, Economics, Marxism, Merchant, Capitalism, Modernity, Mercantilism, Right to property, Wealth, Market mechanism, Multinational corporation, Economic power, Labour power