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p. 2 Capitalism is essentially the investment of money in the expectation of making a profit, and huge profits could be made at some considerable risk by long-distance trading ventures of this kind. Profit was quite simply the result of scarcity and distance. It was made from the huge difference between the price paid for, say, pepper in the ...
- Capitalism: A Very Short Introduction | Oxford Academic
Capitalism: A Very Short Introduction outlines the history...
- Capitalism: A Very Short Introduction | Oxford Academic
May 13, 2004 · Capitalism: A Very Short Introduction outlines the history and development of capitalism and addresses important 21st-century issues, such as New Labour's relationship with capitalism, recent crises in capitalist systems, the significance of global capitalism, and distinctive national models of capitalism. The word ‘capitalism’ is heard and used frequently.
In Chapter 7, Patel and Moore argue that the modern nation-state has been shaped by capitalism’s ecology and vice versa. They trace the roots of the modern nation-state to ideas of blood purity, the state’s increasing power relative to the Catholic Church, and literature sanctioning natural orders of humans.
Jan 1, 2001 · Capitalism, as described by the author, is “the investment of money in the expectation of making a profit” (p. 2). The book describes capitalism first emerging in the form of merchant capitalism through expeditions of the early 15th century, and then evolving into capitalist production of the 1800s and financial capitalism of the 1900s.
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May 13, 2004 · The word 'capitalism' is one that is heard and used frequently, but what is capitalism really all about, and what does it mean? The book begins by addressing basic issues such as 'what is capital?' before discussing the history and development of capitalism through three detailed and absorbing case studies ranging from the tulipomania of seventeenth-century Holland to the recent Enron crisis ...
This Very Short Introduction addresses questions such as 'what is capital?' before discussing the history and development of capitalism through several detailed case studies, ranging from the tulipomania of 17th century Holland, the Great Depression of the 1930s, and in this new edition, the impact of the global financial crisis that started in 2007-8.
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James Fulcher looks at the different forms that capitalism takes in Britain, Japan, Sweden, and the United States, and explores whether capitalism has escaped the nation-state by going global. It ends by asking whether there is an alternative to capitalism, discussing socialism, communal and cooperative experiments, and the alternatives proposed by environmentalists.
