The basic aim of this paper is to take a tour de force in order to put the varieties of capitalism (VoC) approach in perspective and to assess its limits and further prospects. There existed before it a certain stages-ofcapitalism (SoC) approach with a long history. The SoC approach developed...

Shortly after its emergence in the nineteenth century, homo oeconomicus was deployed as a yardstick to measure individual economic behaviour irrespective of temporal and spatial differences. With the European penetration into the Levant, the concept was applied to the evaluation of the economic...