The types of economic policies under capitalism / by Kozo Uno ; translated by Thomas T. Sekine ; edited by John R. Bell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Uno, Kōzō, 1897-1977, author.

Contributor:

Bell, John R., editor.

Series:

Historical materialism book series ; 118.

Historical materialism book series, 1570-1522 ; 118

Standardized Title:

Keizai seisakuron. English

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Capitalism.

History.

Great Britain--Economic policy.

Great Britain.

Economic policy.

Capitalism--Great Britain--History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 338 pages : illustraties ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

Summary:

Uno, who proposes to study capitalism at three distinct levels of abstraction, insists that there should be a mid-range theory of its developmental stages (dankaïron) between the pure theory of capital, which must be couched in the form of Hegelian dialectic (genriron), and capitalist histories which must be recounted with full empirical detail. In this book he illustrates how he would himself expose that mid-range theory, by summarising the three types of economic policy that the bourgeois state successively adopted: mercantilism, liberalism and imperialism. He moreover indicates that economics can relate and cross-fertilise with other branches of social science, such as law and politics, only at this level of abstraction, thus achieving an adequate theory of the bourgeois state. Nowhere else is Marx's insight into 'the state as the epitome of bourgeois society' more vividly endorsed than in this book. First published in Japanese as Keizai-Seisakuron by Kobundo, Ltd. in 1936. The current work is a translation of the enlarged and revised edition of 1971. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Mercantilism

Introduction to Part I 35

1 The Formative Period of Capitalism 37

2 The English Wool Industry as Representing Merchant Capital 41

3 Economic Policies of Mercantilism 48

1 The System of Royal Chatters to Monopolies 51

2 The Navigation Acts 54

3 Commercial Policies 55

4 The Corn Laws 56

Part II Liberalism

Introduction to Part II 63

4 The Period of the Self-Propel led Growth of Capitalism 67

5 The British Cotton Industry as Representing Industrial Capital 77

1 Mechanisation of Cotton Manufacturing 77

2 The Development of the Cotton Industry 80

3 The British Cotton Industry and International Trade 87

6 Economic Policies of Liberalism 99

1 Free Trade Movement in Britain 100

2 Intemationalisation of the Free Trade Movement as a Sequel to Its Success in Britain 116

3 Tariff Protectionism in the United States 124

4 Free Trade and Tariff Protection 132

Part III Imperialism

Introduction to Part in 137

7 Capitalism in Its Decline 144

1 The Concentration of Capital and the Bulking Large of Fixed Capital 144

2 The Functioning of the Joint-Stock Company 149

A The Capital of a Joint-Stock Company 150

B Joint-Stock Companies and Banks 155

C The Joint-Stock Company as Means of Concentrating Managerial Control 161

3 The Mode of Accumulation of Finance-Capital 166

8 Multiple Faces of Finance-Capital 173

1 The Development of Monopoly Organisations in and around the Heavy Industries in Germany 175

2 Britain's Overseas Investment 188

3 The Trust Movement in the United States 197

9 Economic Policies of Imperialism 207

1 Customs Policy and Dumping 210

2 The Acquisition of Colonies and the Export of Capital 221.

Notes:

"This hardback was originally published as Keizai-Seisakuron in Japan by KOBUNDO, LTD., Tokyo, copyright (c) 1971."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-331) and index.

ISBN:

9789004235557

9004235558

OCLC:

950430503

Publisher Number:

99969044724