Capitalists in Spite of Themselves: Elite Conflict and Economic Transitions in Early Modern Europe

by Richard Lachmann

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Here, Richard Lachmann offers a new answer to an old question: Why did capitalism develop in some parts of early modern Europe but not in others? Finding neither a single cause nor an essentialist unfolding of a state or capitalist system, Lachmann describes the highly contingent development of various polities and economies. He identifies, in particular, conflict among feudal elites--landlords, clerics, kings, and officeholders--as the dynamic which...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0195159608

ISBN13:9780195159608

Release Date:October 2002

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:336 Pages

Weight:1.09 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.2"

Related Subjects

Business Business & Finance Business & Investing Economic History Economics Europe Free Enterprise History Politics & Social Sciences Social Science

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