Screen LibraryThe Cambridge history of capitalism / edited by Larry Neal and Jeffrey G. Williamson.
"Modern economic growth, defined as a sustained rise in per capita income (Kuznets 1966C001-025), has created higher levels of prosperity for many more people on earth than was ever thought possible before it began. Moreover, it began not so very long ago, perhaps as late as the middle of the n...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge : |
| Publication Dates: | 2014. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"Modern economic growth, defined as a sustained rise in per capita income (Kuznets 1966C001-025), has created higher levels of prosperity for many more people on earth than was ever thought possible before it began. Moreover, it began not so very long ago, perhaps as late as the middle of the nineteenth century and certainly not before the end of the seventeenth century"-- |
| Carrier Form: | 2 volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781107019638 (volume 1 : hardback) 9781107019645 (volume 2 : hardback) 110701963X (hardback) 1107019648 1107036941 9781107036949 |
| Index Number: | HB501 |
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F119 F03 |
| Call Number: | F03/C178 |
| Contents: |
The rise of capitalism : from ancient origins to 1848 -- Introduction / Babylonia in the first millennium BCE--economic growth in times of empire / Capitalism and the ancient Greek economy / Re-constructing the Roman economy / Trans-Asian trade, or the Silk Road deconstructed (antiquity, middle ages) / China before capitalism / Capitalism in India in the very long run / Institutional change and economic development in the Middle East, 700-1800 / Markets and coercion in medieval Europe / The via italiana to capitalism / The Low Countries / The formation of states and transitions to modern economies : from England, Europe, and Asia compared / Capitalism and dependency in Latin America / The emergence of African capitalism / Native American and exchange : strategies and interactions before 1800 / Britishn and European industrialization / America : capitalism's promised land / The political economy of rising capitalism / The spread of capitalism : from 1848 to the present -- Introduction : the spread of and resistance to global capitalism / The spread of manufacturing / Growth, specialization, and organization of world agriculture / Technology and the spread of capitalism / Spread of legal innovations defining private and public domains / Firms and global capitalism / Enterprise models : freestanding firms versus family pyramids / Financial capitalism / International capital movements and the global order / Capitalism and the colonies / Capitalism at war / Modern capitalism : enthusiasts, opponents, and reformers / Labor movements / Private welfare and the welfare state / Capitalism and human welfare / The future of capitalism / |