HomeHelpSearchVideo SearchAudio SearchMarc DisplaySave to ListReserveMy AccountLibrary Map


Capitalism : A Short History / Jürgen Kocka ; translated by Jeremiah Riemer.

Author: Kocka, Jürgen, author.

Imprint:Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2016]

Descriptionviii, 198 pages ; 23 cm

Note:"First published in Germany under 'Geschichte des Kapitalismus', by Jürgen Kocka." --Title page verso.

Note:What Does Capitalism Mean? The Emergence of a Controversial Concept -- Three Classics : Marx, Weber, and Schumpeter -- Other Voices and a Working Definition -- Merchant Capitalism. China and Arabia -- Europe : Dynamic Latecomer -- Interim Findings around 1500 -- Expansion. Business and Violence : Colonialism and World Trade -- Joint-Stock Company and Finance Capitalism -- Plantation Economy and Slavery -- Agrarian Capitalism, Mining, and Proto-Industrialization -- Capitalism, Culture, and Enlightenment : Adam Smith in Context -- The Capitalist Era. The Contours of Industrialization and Globalization since 1800 -- From Ownership to Managerial Capitalism -- Financialization -- Work in Capitalism -- Market and State -- Analysis and Critique.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-196) and index.

Note:In this 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.

Original Version NoteOriginally published: München : Verlag C.H. Beck, [2013]

Note:Recommended in Resources for College Libraries



This item has been checked out 4 time(s)
and currently has 0 hold request(s).

Related Searches
Author:
Kocka, Jürgen, author.
Uniform Title
Geschichte des Kapitalismus. English
Subject:
Capitalism -- History.
Economic history.
Contributor
Riemer, Jeremiah, 1952- translator.