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The three booming decades that followed the Second World War, according to political economist Clara E. Mattei, were an anomaly in the history of contemporary capitalism. She writes that austerity did not originate with the emergence of the neoliberal era starting in the 1970s, but "has been the mainstay of capitalism." [41]
Authoritative and accessible, Capitalism is an enlightening account of a force that has shaped the modern world like few others. 978-1-4008-7341-8. History, Economics. In this authoritative and accessible book, one of the world's most renowned historians provides a concise and comprehensive history of capitalism within a...
- Jürgen Kocka
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 ...
Non-Marxist scholarship did not build on the Marxist concept and interpretation of capitalism, but the term itself became commonly used in scholarship. Many twentieth century sociologists and economists used the term capitalism to mean a society and economy based on free market and entrepreneurial interest, and accepted these characteristics as the essence of capitalism, in contrast to socialism.
- The Beginning: Mercantile Capitalism, 14th-18th Centuries
- The Second Epoch: Classical (or Competitive) Capitalism, 19th Century
- The Third Epoch: Keynesian Or "New Deal" Capitalism
According to Giovanni Arrighi, an Italian sociologist, capitalism first emerged in its mercantile form during the 14th century. It was a system of trade developed by Italian traders who wished to increase their profits by evading local markets. This new system of trade was limited until growing European powers started to profit from long-distance t...
Classical capitalism is the form we are probably thinking of when we think about what capitalism is and how it operates. It was during this epoch that Karl Marxstudied and critiqued the system, which is part of what makes this version stick in our minds. Following the political and technological revolutions mentioned above, a massive reorganization...
As the 20th century dawned, the U.S. and nation states within Western Europe were firmly established as sovereign states with distinct economies bounded by their national borders. The second epoch of capitalism, what we call “classical” or “competitive,” was ruled by free-market ideology and the belief that competition between firms and nations was...
Marx and Engels predicted in 1848 that capitalism would spread to the entire world. By the end of the twentieth century, that prediction was confirmed: capitalism had indeed become global, but only after a tortuous and violent course of institutional change in many parts of the world. This paper provides a brief
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Economist Lisa Cook of Michigan State University asks why the transition to capitalism in Russia in the 1990s did not spark a wave of innovation. She documents the late 19th century inventions contributed by African American inventors, including gas masks, traffic lights, and light bulb technology and how this burst of innovations was cut short by a wave of attacks and anti-black mob violence.
