"Hans Holbein's Triumphs (1532-1534), commissioned for the headquarters of the Hanseatic League in London and Kano Naizen's The Portuguese namban ('foreigners') painted in Japan in 1543 are representations of worlds of trade, where wealth, speculation, exploitation, poverty, curiosity,...

Introduction -- Part One: The Basics -- Chapter 2: The institutional forms on which a capitalist economy is based -- Chapter 3: From the iron laws of capitalism to the successive regulation modes -- Chapter 4: Accumulation regimes and their historical evolution -- Chapter 5: A theory of the...