The origins of capitalism as a social system : the prevalence of an aleatory encounter / John Milios.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mēlios, Giannēs, author.

Series:

Routledge frontiers of political economy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capitalism--History.

Capitalism.

History.

Economic history.

Social systems--History.

Social systems.

Physical Description:

xi, 242 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2018.

Contents:

Introduction

Capitalism and its origins: the theoretical context

Marx's notion of capitalism: a synoptic account

Marx's two approaches to the genesis of capitalism : the "productive forces

relations of production dialectic'

Early forms of capitalism and wage labour : Lenin's polemic against the narodniks

Capitalism and the agrarian sector : Karl Kautsky's theoretical intervention

Post-World War II marxist approaches to the "transition to capitalism" question

Non-marxist approaches to the origins of capitalism

Modes of production and the pre-capitalist money-owner

Venice and the Mediterranean: a discourse on the birth of capitalism

From a Byzantine exarchate to a major colonial power in the Mediterranean : a historical sketch of the rise of Venice up to 1204

The Venetian social formation until the end of the thirteenth century : an unconsummated process of original accumulation

War economics and the ascent of capitalism in the fourteenth century

After the encounter took hold : the reproduction of capitalism on an expanded scale

Venice alongside the new capitalist powers

Political power and social cohesion

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Mēlios, Giannēs. Origins of capitalism as a social system.

ISBN:

9781138036703

1138036706

OCLC:

1016048929