The age of capital 1848-1875
Tipo de material: TextoIdioma: Inglés Series History greatsDetalles de publicación: Londres Abacus 1997Edición: 1a ediciónDescripción: 413 páginas 20 cmISBN:- 9780349104805
- 330.122 H617a 21
Tipo de ítem | Biblioteca actual | Colección | Signatura topográfica | Copia número | Estado | Fecha de vencimiento | Código de barras | |
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Libro Colección General | Central Bogotá Sala General | Colección General | 330.122 H617a (Navegar estantería(Abre debajo)) | 1 | Disponible | 0000000138510 |
he first and best, major treatment of the crucial years 1848-1875, a penetrating analysis of the rise of capitalism throught the world. In the 1860s a new word entered the economic and political vocabulary of the world: ‘capitalism’. The global triumph of capitalism is the major theme of history in the decades after 1848. It was the triumph of a society which believed that economic growth rests on competitive private enterprise, on success in buying everything in the cheapest market (including labour) and selling it in the dearest. An economy so based, and therefore nestling naturally on the sound foundations of a bourgoisie composed of those whom energy, merit and intelligence had raised to their position and kept there, would – it was believed – not only create a world of suitably distributed material plenty but of ever-growing enlightenment, reason and human opportunity, an advance of the sciences and the arts, in brief a world of continuous and accelerating material and moral progress.