Saving capitalism from the capitalists : world capitalism and global history

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Title:

Author:

Elsenhans, Hartmut, 1941-

ISBN:

9789351500568

Personal Author:

Elsenhans, Hartmut, 1941-

Physical Description:

xv, 325 pages ; 23 cm

Contents:

Introduction: defending capitalism against the privileged -- Profitable capitalism and rising mass incomes -- Stratification without transition to capitalism and the European distinctiveness -- Pre-capitalist origins of culture: the a-cultural character of capitalism and the cultural turn -- The nature of capitalism -- Globalisation and its contradictions -- Alliances for imposing capitalism: the globalisation of profit against the globalisation of rent -- An international community of rentier governments: noble intentions or a return to the past.

Abstract:

"This book argues that a lack in perception of the progressive aspects of capitalism has resulted in policy measures that have frequently been defeated. It brings out the importance of capitalism as the promise of being able to attain socialism. Based on modern economics of a post-Keynesian nature, it rejects mechanistic Marxism and the civilisational process of cultural turn thinking. The book is a comprehensive analysis of the origins of capitalism, its contradictions, the dynamics of non-capitalist societies and the challenges of globalisation (including theories of imperialism)"--The publisher.

Subject Term:

Capitalism.

Capitalism -- History.

Economics.

Economic history.

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Capitalism is often recognised as a realisation of the bourgeois revolution--war to the castles and peace to the huts. This book argues that a lack in perception of the progressive aspects of capitalism has resulted in policy measures that have frequently been defeated. It brings out the importance of capitalism as the promise of being able to attain socialism. Based on modern economics of a post-Keynesian nature, it rejects mechanistic Marxism and the civilisational process of cultural turn thinking. The book is a comprehensive analysis of the origins of capitalism, its contradictions, the dynamics of non-capitalist societies and the challenges of globalisation (including theories of imperialism).