The unique historical relationship between capitalism and the Jews is crucial to understanding modern European and … this book Jerry Muller, a leading historian of capitalism, separates myth from reality to explain why the Jewish experience … with capitalism has been so important and complex-and so ambivalent. Drawing on economic, social, political, and …

"Corporate capitalism was invented in nineteenth-century Britain; most of the market institutions that we take for … problems of modern capitalism - financial fraud, reckless speculation, excessive remuneration - have clear historical …

. If indeed there is a break in the history of capitalism, it should be situated at the turn of the nineteenth and … regulation. This book provides a new intellectual, economic and legal history of capitalism from the eighteenth century to the …"This book provides a new intellectual, economic and legal history of capitalism from the eighteenth century to the …

always so. Capitalism took shape centuries ago, starting with a handful of isolated changes in farming, trade, and … ideas arose to reshape societies in a constant surge of change. Approaching capitalism as a culture, as important for its …