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The book was generally met with favorable reviews, including Reason magazine, [2] The Economist, [10] Financial Times, [11] and The Spectator. [7]Some critics of the book included the New Statesman, [12] and Kristian Niemietz of IEA stated that the book was even-handed in its criticism of both left and right wing politically motivated anti-liberalism, "Some chapters are primarily aimed at the ...
The book was originally published in 1999 by Monthly Review Press, and then a revised [10] edition was published in 2002 by Verso Books, with the subtitle "A Longer View". [11] A reprint appeared in 2013 and again in 2017. Wood, Ellen Meiksins (1999) The Origin of Capitalism, Monthly Review Press, 1999. ISBN 1-58367-000-9, 120 pp.
The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism is a 1982 book [1] by philosopher Michael Novak, in which Novak aims to understand and analyze the theological assumptions of democratic capitalism, its spirit, its values, and its intentions. Novak defines democratic capitalism as a pluralistic social system that contrasts with the unitary state of the ...
Lenin's socio-political analysis of empire as the ultimate stage of capitalism derived from Imperialism: A Study (1902) by John A. Hobson, an English economist, and Finance Capital (Das Finanzcapital, 1910) by Rudolf Hilferding, an Austrian Marxist, whose syntheses Lenin applied to the geopolitical circumstances of the First World War, caused ...
Robert L. Heilbroner (March 24, 1919 – January 4, 2005) was an American economist and historian of economic thought.The author of some two dozen books, Heilbroner was best known for The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers (1953), a survey of the lives and contributions of famous economists, notably Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes.
Marx never provided a complete definition of the capitalist mode of production as a short summary, although in his manuscripts he sometimes attempted one. In a sense, it is Marx's three-volume work Capital (1867–1894; sometimes known by its German title, Das Kapital), as a whole that provides his "definition" of the capitalist mode of ...
Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World is a 2019 nonfiction book published by Harvard University Press by Branko Milanovic, an economist at the Stone Centre on Socioeconomic Inequality at the City University of New York.
In this section, Berman makes the point that in Modernity via Capitalism all values in the world, all social structures, and ways of being get subsumed into the global market. "Old modes of honor and dignity do not die; instead, they get incorporated into the market, take on price tags, gain a new life as commodities.