? How do governments shape our economic fortunes? What role has entrepreneurship played in the rise and success of … capitalism? Tackling these and other issues, the book looks at coercion and exchange in the markets of twelfth-century China …

? How do governments shape our economic fortunes? What role has entrepreneurship played in the rise and success of … capitalism? Tackling these and other issues, the book looks at coercion and exchange in the markets of twelfth-century China …

Game theory is central to modern understandings of how people deal with problems of coordination and cooperation. Yet …, ironically, it cannot give a straightforward explanation of some of the simplest forms of human coordination and cooperation …--most famously, that people can use the apparently arbitrary features of "focal points" to solve coordination problems, and that …

capitalism arise because of large external shocks. The combination of these shocks and the slow adjustments of wages and prices …

growth, 1000-1800 -- 3. Between feudalism and freedom, 1000-1350 -- 4. Capitalism and civil society in late Medieval Holland …, 1350-1566 -- 5. A capitalist revolution? The Dutch revolt, 1566-1609 -- 6. New capitalism at home and overseas -- 7. The … Republican State and "varieties of capitalism" -- 8. Capitalism and inequality in the eighteenth century -- 9. Conclusion …

around the world. The common assumption is that globalization is merging the varieties of corporate capitalism. Yet, as this … of capitalism is the human resource departments of large corporations, where changes in markets and technology turn into …

capitalism but Westernization, and "new dirigistes" who oppose not Westernization but capitalism. In response, Lal contends that … capitalism doesn't have to lead to Westernization, as the examples of Japan, China, and India show, and that "new dirigiste … bases his case on a historical account of the rise of capitalism and globalization in the first two liberal international …

capitalism arise because of large external shocks. The combination of these shocks and the slow adjustments of wages and prices …