In the light of the deepening crisis of capitalism and continued non-Western capitalist accumulation, Henry Heller re-examines the debates surrounding the transition from feudalism to capitalism in Europe and elsewhere. Focusing on arguments about the origin, nature and sustainability of...

For the past two decades, economics has developed into a science in which just one methodology and one theory have gained exclusive rights. This narrow focus is an important contribution to the current crisis. Economists should clothe themselves with historical knowledge and academic modesty

I argue that economists have reasons internal to the way that evidence works in the sciences to re-discover the importance of the history of their own discipline. For it is a constitutive element of science - here conceived as an ongoing research practice (as opposed to as an explanatory...