About this title: Few questions of history have as many contemporary political implications as this deceptively simple one: how did capitalism come to be? In this clarifying work, Ellen Meiksins Wood refutes most existing accounts of the origin of capitalism, which, she argues, fail to recognize capitalism's distinctive attributes as a social system, making it seem a culmination of a natural human inclination to sell and buy. Wood begins with searching assessments of classical thinkers ranging from Adam Smith to Max Weber. She then explores the great Marxist debates among writers such as Paul Sweezy, Maurice ...
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Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Monthly Review Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9781583670002ISBN:1583670009
Description: Acceptable. Moderate wear/scuffing to cover, bumped/curled corners. Used stickers on spine and back cover. Underlining throughout book. read more
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