Michael Perelman

The Invention of Capitalism

Classical Political Economy and the Secret History of Primitive Accumulation

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines diaries, letters, and the practical writings of the classical economists to show how Adam Smith and the other classical economists appear to have deliberately obscured the nature of the control of labour and how policies attacking the economic independence of the rural peasantry were essentially conceived to foster primitive accumulation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 149mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 606g
• ISBN-13: 9780822324911
• ISBN-10: 0822324911
• Artikelnr.: 22184631

Autorenporträt

Michael Perelman

Inhaltsangabe

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