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The author provides a concise and comprehensive history of capitalism within a global perspective from its medieval origins to the 2008 financial crisis and beyond. The author offers an account of capitalism that weighs its great achievements against its great costs, crises, and failures. 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. 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.--
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Capitalism, History, Economic history, Kapitalismus, Capitalismo, HistoriaShowing 2 featured editions. View all 2 editions?
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Capitalism: A Short History
Nov 14, 2017, Princeton University Press
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"First published in Germany under 'Geschichte des Kapitalismus,' by Jürgen Kocka, ©2014." --Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-196) and index.
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