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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Introduction
1. “The roguery practised in this department is beyond imagination”: William Bolts and the East India Company
2. “The mean rapacity, the monopolising spirit of merchants and manufacturers”: Adam Smith on Colonial Capitalism and Slavery
3. “On the brink for the last struggle”: The Logic of the Luddites
4. “It is time … to seek for a radical, a permanent cure of the evils that afflict society”: William Thompson’s Utilitarian Socialism
5. “In speaking of the degraded position of my sex”: Anna Wheeler and the Forgotten Half of Humanity
6. “Abandon your isolation: unite with each other!”: Flora Tristan and the Universal Workers’ Union 82
7. “One of the shabbiest Gospels ever preached on Earth”: Thomas Carlyle on Mammon and the Cash Nexus
8. “The war of the poor against the rich will be the bloodiest ever waged”: Friedrich Engels and The Communist Manifesto
9. “Our friend, Moneybags”: Karl Marx’s Capitalist Laws of Motion
10. “We must make land common property”: Henry George’s Moral Crusade
11. “The ideal pecuniary man is like the ideal delinquent”: Thorstein Veblen and the Captains of Industry
12. “A particularly crude form of capitalism”: John Hobson’s Theory of Imperialism
13. “Capital knows no other solution to the problem than violence”: Rosa Luxemburg on Capitalism, Colonialism, and War
14. “The rhythm of long cycles”: Nikolai Kondratiev and the Dynamics of Capitalist Development
15. “The more troublous the times, the worse does a laissez-faire system work”: John Maynard Keynes’s Blueprint for Managed Capitalism
16. “The time was ripe for the fascist solution”: Karl Polanyi’s Warnings About Capitalism and Democracy
17. “The bankruptcy of reform”: Two Skeptics of Keynesianism: Paul Sweezy and Michał Kalecki
18. “Economics once more became political economy”: Joan Robinson and the “Bastard Keynesians”
19. “Nature … faithful and submissive to those who respect her”: J. C. Kumarappa and the Economics of Permanence
20. “Vast sugar factories owned by a camarilla of absentee capitalist magnates and worked by a mass of alien proletarians”: Eric Williams on Slavery and Capitalism
21. “The periphery of the economic system”: The Rise and Fall of Dependency Theory in Latin America
22. “Shock treatment”: Milton Friedman and the Rise of Neoliberalism
23. “Any use of the natural resources for the satisfaction of non-vital needs means a smaller quantity of life in the future”: Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen and the Limits to Growth
24. “A true masterpiece at the expense of women”: Silvia Federici and Wages for Housework
25. “It is a form of regressive modernisation”: Theorists of Thatcherism: Stuart Hall vs. Friedrich Hayek
26. “Social disintegration is not a spectator sport”: Parsing Globalization: Samir Amin, Dani Rodrik, and Joseph Stiglitz
27. “A historically unprecedented situation”: Thomas Piketty and Rising Inequality
28. “A confluence that could propel a new paradigm”: The End of Capitalism, or the Beginning?
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Acknowledgments
Index
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