Editor/Author
Kocka, Jurgen
Publication Year: 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Single-User Purchase Price:
$45.00
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$67.50
ISBN: 978-0-69-116522-6
Category: Business, Finance & Economics - Economics
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
In this book, one of the worlds most renowned historians provides a concise and comprehensive history of capitalism within a global perspective from its medieval origins to the 2008 financial crisis and beyond. From early commercial capitalism in the Arab world, China, and Europe, to nineteenth- and twentieth-century industrialization, to todays globalized financial capitalism, Jurgen Kocka offers an unmatched account of capitalism, one that weighs its great achievements against its great costs, crises, and failures.