Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Before Capitalism -- Chapter 3. The Protestant Reformation and the Rise of “Economic Man” -- Chapter 4. The Age of Enlightenment: 1585-1789 -- Chapter 5. Money as Wealth -- Chapter 6. Money as a Medium of Exchange -- Chapter 7. Credit and Banking --...

During the 1990s over two dozen countries in Europe and Asia underwent a transition from centrally planned to more market-oriented economies. In Constructing a Market Economy, Richard Pomfret reviews their diverse experiences and assesses the outcome of transition in each case. The book includes...

Defining state capitalism -- Russia: crony capitalism, Putin-style -- Kyrgyzstan: sad poster-child of neoliberalism -- Kazakhstan: a dual economy with developmental characteristics -- Uzbekistan: economic life under control and beyond control -- Tajikistan and Turkmenistan: predatory state...

The great economic pendulum -- The limits of capitalism -- External limits of capitalism -- Internal limits of capitalism -- The utopia of self-regulation in the market system -- Who can save the market system from destruction? -- External limits of governments -- Internal limits of governments...