Disposable women and other myths of global capitalism -- Disposable daughters and factory fathers -- Manufacturing bodies -- The dialectics of still life: murder, women, and disposability -- Maquiladora mestizas and a feminist border politics -- Crossing the factory frontier -- Paradoxes and...

Is there a moral economy of capitalism? The term "moral economy" was coined in pre-capitalist times and does not refer to economy as we know it today. It was only in the nineteenth century that economy came to mean the production and circulation of goods and services. At the same time, the term...

The power of entrepreneurship -- The power of institutions: economic regimes and the permanent renewal of capitalism -- The power of ideas and inventions -- Pioneering companies -- From the rise of industrial cities to post-industrial suburbanization -- Bubbles, great depressions: economic cycles