Capitalism : : The Story behind the Word / / Michael Sonenscher.

Tracking the history of a word sheds new light on capitalism and modern politics What exactly is capitalism? How has the meaning of capitalism changed over time? And what’s at stake in our understanding or misunderstanding of it? In Capitalism, Michael Sonenscher examines the history behind the conc...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.) :; 8 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Part I. Problems
  • I. Capitalism and Commercial Society
  • II. Capitalism and the History of Political Thought
  • III. Capitalism, War, and Debt
  • IV. Capitalism, Royalism, and the Social Question
  • V. Capitalism and the Right to Work
  • VI. Capitalism in a Divided World
  • Part II. Solutions
  • VII. Karl Marx—Capitalism, Communism, and the Division of Labour
  • VIII. Adam Smith—Capitalism, Utility, and Justice
  • IX. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel—Civil Society and the State
  • X. David Ricardo—Public Debt and Comparative Advantage
  • XI. Lorenz von Stein—Public Debt and Public Administration
  • XII. Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index