Language: English
Tags: Capitalism Economics
Contents
Capital and Capitalism
The Crusades
The Knights Templar
Dissolution of the Templars
Opening up the Trade Routes
Expansionism
The Birthplace of Capitalism
The Dutch East India Company
English Pirates
The Power of Private Investment
Hobbes, the First Capitalist Thinker
The Power of the Individual
The State of Nature
Leviathan and the Social Contract
Natural Reason and Private Property
Labour = Ownership?
Locke and Civil Government
Locke and Colonialism
The Wealth of Nations
Specialization of Skills
Free Trade
The Scottish Enlightenment
The Rothschilds
Industrialization
The Opium Wars
The Rise of Social Sciences
David Ricardo
The Cost of Labour
The Workers’ Straitjacket
John Stuart Mill
Utilitarianism
The Pleasures of Freedom
Rules of Nature and Society
Distribution of Wealth
Supply and Demand
Humane Capitalism?
Life in the Slums
The Great Famine
Movements for Reform
The Chartists
The Birth of Socialism
Bakunin and Anarchism
Marx, the anti-Utopian
Marx and Hegel
Resolving the Contradictions
Thesis–Antithesis–Synthesis
The End of History?
Historical Materialism
The History of Class Struggles
Das Kapital
Value = Human Labour
Surplus Value
Marx’s Prediction
Capitalism Without Imperialism
The Rise of the US and Germany
The Roaring Twenties
The Crash and the Great Depression
The New Deal
Keynes and Liberal Economics
A Healthy Circulation
The Cycles of Capitalism
Beating Inflation
Fighting Depression
State Capitalism
“Economic Miracles”
The Marshall Plan
Monetarism vs. Keynesianism
How to Ensure Rising Consumption?
Cultural Effects of Capitalism
Max Weber and the Protestant Spirit
Making Organizations Work for People
Neo-Marxism and the Frankfurt School
The Adoration of the New
Unmasking Consumer Culture
Adorno and the Media
The Situationists
Debord and the Spectacle
Right-wing Critiques of Capitalism
Knowing Your Place
Nozick and Right-wing Libertarianism
Taxation as Forced Labour?
Fukuyama and the End of History
Directional History
The Struggle for Recognition
Challenging the Free Market
The Developing World: Free Trade …?
… or State Capitalism?
Islam and Capitalism
Sharia Banking
Bursting the Bubble
Further Reading
History
Weber and Marx
Neo-Marxism
Conservatism
Contemporary Commentary
Acknowledgements
Index
