Perelman The Invention of Capitalism

Classical Political Economy and the Secret History of Primitive Accumulation
1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8069-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 424 Seiten

Rethinks the history of classical political economy by assessing the Marxian idea of “primitive accumulation,” the process by which a propertyless working class is created.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Perelman, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Dark Designs

1. The Enduring Importance of Primitive Accumulation

2. The Theory of Primitive Accumulation

3. Primitive Accumulation and the Game Laws

4. The Social Division of Labor and Household Production

5. Elaborating the Model of Primitive Accumulation

6. The Dawn of Political Economy

7. Sir James Steuart’s Secret History of Primitive Accumulation

8. Adam Smith’s Charming Obfuscation of Class

9. The Revisionist History of Professor Adam Smith

10. Adam Smith and the Ideological Role of the Colonies

11. Benjamin Franklin and the Smithian Ideology of Slavery and Wage Labor

12. The Classics as Cossacks: Classical Political Economy versus the Working Class

13. The Counterattack

14. Notes on Development

Conclusion

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Perelman is Professor of Economics at California State University, Chico. His books include The Natural Instability of Markets: Expectations, Increasing Returns, and the Collapse of Markets.