"Prophecies about the end of capitalism are as old as capitalism. None of them, so far, has come true. Yet we keep looking into the crystal ball in search of harbingers of doom. Francesco Boldizzoni gets to the root of the very human need to imagine a better world and uncovers the mechanisms by...

Verlagsinfo: Mit dem Weltbestseller "Das Kapital im 21.Jahrhundert" hat Thomas Piketty eines der wichtigsten Bücher unserer Zeit geschrieben. Jetzt legt er mit einem gewaltigen Werk nach: Kapital und Ideologie ist eine so noch niemals geschriebene Globalgeschichte der sozialen Ungleichheit und...

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- One. Sitting on the Edge of Apocalypse -- Two. The Interwar Revival of Prophecy -- Three. Hopes Betrayed -- Four. The End of History and What Followed -- Five. Wanderings of the Predictive Mind -- Six. How Capitalism...

The origin of markets is a central issue in economics and economic history, but until now there has been no definitive reference source on the subject. This authoritative collection fills the gap by reprinting key papers analysing the evolution of markets over the past millennium. These papers,...