The Nature and Logic of CapitalismW. W. Norton & Company, 1985 - 225 pages In The Worldly Philosophers, Robert Heilbroner set out to describe what the great economists thought would happen to the system of capitalism. In later books. Professor Heilbroner projected his own views about the future of the capitalist system. Now he asks a still more demanding question: What is capitalism? In search of an answer, The Nature and Logic of Capitalism takes us on a far-ranging exploration to the unconscious levels of the human psyche and the roots of domination and submission; to the organization of primitive society and the origins of wealth; to the sources of profit and the conception of a "regime" of capital; to the interplay of relatively slow-changing institutions and the powerful force of the accumulation of wealth. By the end of this tour we have grappled not only with ideas of Adam Smith and Karl Marx but with Freud and modern anthropologists as well. And we are far closer to understanding capitalism in our time, its possibilities and limits. |
Table des matières
Preface | 9 |
1 On the Nature and Logic of Social Systems | 13 |
2 The Drive to Amass Capital | 33 |
3 The Regime of Capital | 53 |
4 The Role of the State | 78 |
5 The Ideology of Capital | 107 |
6 The Logic of Capitalist Development | 141 |
7 The Limits of Social Analysis | 180 |
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accumulation process acquisitive activities Adam Smith analysis aspect becomes behavior belief Cambridge capacity capi capitalist causal central century circuit commodities competition conception consequence crisis culture dependency direct domination drive E. P. Thompson economic patriotism economic realm effects elements embody essential existence expansion explanation Fernand Braudel force freedom functions historic human ideology Immanuel Wallerstein important individual industrial institutions interest labor power logic of capitalism Marx Marx's Marxian Marxism material means ment military Milton Friedman modern moral movement nature and logic nature of capitalism nomic organizing output period political liberalism possible prestige principle production profit R. H. Tawney regime of capital relationship role rulership ruling class Samir Amin scenarios social formation sphere structure surplus surplus value technological tion tributary systems understanding University Press Wealth of Nations workers worldly philosophers York