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Indian, and American goods. This case study offers a unique examination of the emergence of capitalism and of a consumer …Introduction : from "market" to markets : new trends in rural economic and social history -- People on the move … manufacture -- General stores : capitalism's beachheads or local traffic controllers? -- A tale of two markets : frontier farming …
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This book tries to decenter work on the history of capitalism by looking at the longue durée from the tenth century; at … locate the origins of capitalism solely within Europe and within the conjuncture of the industrial revolution. The essays … capitalism can be better understood from a truly global perspective …
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Is there a moral economy of capitalism? The term "moral economy" was coined in pre-capitalist times and does not refer …, the morality of capitalism is often the topic of debate and controversy. "Moral Economies" engages in these debates. Using … twenty-first centuries was still oriented towards this model, thereby criticizing capitalism on moral grounds …
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historical and contemporary contexts, in Canada and beyond, Subsistence under Capitalism offers a collective study on the ways in … under Capitalism looks behind the scenes of subsistence food provisioning to challenge the dominant economic thought of the … modern world."-- …
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"The book aims to counter the normative functioning of creativity in contemporary capitalism with a plethora of … alternatives to radical creative practices. In the first part, titled 'Creative Capitalism', five authors analyze the forms of … contemporary capitalism: on the one hand, there are new ways of working which include flexibility, mobility, and especially …
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parts of the world. This is in contrast to theories that project globalisation as a process driven exclusively by global … capital and technology, a scheme in which some parts of the world forever will be 'peripheries' supplying labor and natural …
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to be effective in a world in jeopardy. The varieties of capitalism (VoC) debate itself came into being as the Soviet …"The Future of Capitalism After the Financial Crisis: The Varieties of Capitalism Debate in the Age of Austerity … contains thirteen world leading political economists writing from within eight different countries who critically analyze the …
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narratives of exploitation that underlay and determined the course of modern history. One of the first attempts to take this … approach in postcolonial studies, the book seeks to sketch the commensal relation-a symbiotic "phoresy"-between capitalism and …, Sociology, History, Peace and Conflict Studies, Legal Studies, and Literary Criticism and Theatre, exploring the connections …
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