Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- NOTE ON THE TEXTS OF THE READINGS -- Introduction -- PART I: MODERN CAPITALISM -- O N E Modern Capitalism: Key Characteristics and Key Institutions -- TWO The Spirit of Capitalism -- THREE The Market -- FOUR The Beginnings of the Firm -- FIVE Class, Status, and Party...

"In Tocqueville's Political Economy, Richard Swedburg shows that Alexis de Tocqueville had a highly original and suggestive approach to economics - one that still has much to teach us today." "Through careful readings of Tocqueville's two major books and many of his other writings, Swedburg lays...