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Covering times, places and topics that have often been overlooked in the existing economic history literature, this collection charts the most comprehensive chronology of capitalism to date.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Casson, Catherine (Editor ), Rössner, Philipp Robinson (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Bristol University Press, [2022]
Temas:
Capitalism > History.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History.
Capitalism
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover
  • Evolutions of Capitalism: Historical Perspectives: 1200-2000
  • Copyright information
  • Table of contents
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 Introduction
  • Definition of capitalism
  • Five functions relevant to capitalism
  • Key dates for entrepreneurship
  • Key dates for finance
  • Key dates for management
  • Key dates for workers
  • Key dates for political leaders
  • Summary of chronological change
  • References
  • 2 The Market as an Institution: Theory and History
  • Introduction
  • Evolution of the market
  • Definition of a market
  • Plan of the chapter
  • Key concepts in the analysis of markets
  • Private property
  • Alienability
  • Incentives to trade
  • Money
  • Comparison
  • Co-location of transactions
  • Trust
  • Intermediation
  • Markets and innovation
  • Economic theory of markets
  • Analysis of market behaviour
  • Typology of market processes
  • Retailing and local market competition
  • A social network approach to retail markets
  • Locations of towns
  • Roles of towns: historical evidence
  • The urban marketplace: topography
  • Policy intervention: regulation of the market
  • Objectives
  • Origins of regulation
  • Regulation of wholesale trade: role of civic customs
  • Quality control
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • 3 Regulating Capitalism
  • The scholastic heritage and beyond
  • Transitions towards capitalism: case study of late medieval Germany and the Reformation, 1470s-1530s
  • Monetary regulation
  • Industrial policy
  • Notes
  • References
  • 4 Capitalism and State Ownership Models
  • Introduction
  • Literature review
  • Sweden: historical background for ownership model
  • Norway: historical background for state ownership
  • Norway falling behind after 1870
  • State ownership after the Second World War
  • Liberalization and embracing of the Hydro model
  • Comparing ownership models of Norway and Sweden
  • Collaboration between business and Social Democrats
  • National ownership and control
  • Active ownership
  • Monitoring and free-riding
  • The present standing of the ownership model
  • Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
  • 5 Comparative and Connected Global Capitalism(s)
  • Introduction
  • Capitalism(s) before divergence
  • Capitalism(s) and the institutions of global trade
  • Whose capitalism?
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 6 Capitalism, Imperialism and the Emergence of an Industrialized Global Economy
  • Introduction
  • Some (stylized) theory and history
  • The concentration and centralization of capital, backwardness, stage theory and capitalist modernization
  • State capitalism, imperialism and late industrialization
  • The rise of the rest: late industrial capitalism in Asia
  • Cosy capitalism or crony capitalism?
  • Re-evaluating the dynamics of imperialism-industrialism: a perspective (largely) from Latin America: the imperialism of free trade, structuralism and dependency
  • Conclusion
  • References

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