The leading part of this volume focuses on the role of the state in capitalist society, beginning by showing the welfare state as an historical product of the class structure of English agrarian capitalism. The second chapter indicates how, in European colonies such as in Africa, taxation was an...

Amidst a capitalist crisis that has upturned mainstream orthodoxies, this volume underscores the importance of historical and materialist understandings of capitalist economies. Thus, fundamentally, it exposes the limitations of neoclassical economics' endogenous growth theory and how it, in...

Preface; Paul Zarembka Part I. Peripheral Europe and Post-Hegemonic Regionalism Chapter 1. The Development of Capitalism in Russia in the Works of Marx, Danielson, Vorontsov and Lenin; James D. White Chapter 2. The Historical Course of Ownership Structures and Rentier Capitalism in Portugal; Mariana...

The book, authored in the main by Simon Stander and true to the interdisciplinary nature of political economy, focuses attention on why capitalism survives crises by developing the novel argument that it has moved on from its 19th century embodiment to include a class of shock absorbers. This...