Introducing Capitalism Introducing Capitalism
A Graphic Guide
Published on 5. June 2014
176 pages
978-1-84831-765-9 (ISBN)
Description
Capitalism now dominates the globe, both in economics and ideology, shapes every aspect of our world and influences everything from laws, wars and government to interpersonal relationships.Introducing Capitalism tells the story of its remarkable and often ruthless rise, evolving through strife and struggle as much as innovation and enterprise.
Dan Cryan and Sharron Shatil, with Piero's brilliant graphics, cover the major economic, social and political developments that shaped the world we live in, such as the rise of banking, the founding of America and the Opium Wars.The book explores the leading views for and against, including thinkers like Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Theodor Adorno and Milton Friedman, the connections between them and their historical context.
Few ideas have had as much impact on our everyday lives as capitalism. Introducing Capitalism is the essential companion.
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Dan Cryan has degrees in Philosophy from UCL and now works as a market analyst in London. Sharron Shatil is a Philosophy lecturer at the Open Universityin Israel. Piero is an illustrator, artist and graphic designer whose work has twice been included in the Royal College of Art exhibition in London. Previous Introducing titles include Aesthetics, Shakespeare and Nietzsche.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Capital and Capitalism
- Capitalism vs. Feudalism
- 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
- Self-interest
- The Invisible Hand
- Specialization of Skills
- Free Trade
- The Scottish Enlightenment
- The Slave Trade
- 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
- Control of the Means of Production
- 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 Production Line
- The "Empires of Trade"
- 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
- Catholic and Protestant Ethics
- The Rise of Rationality
- Making Organizations Work for People
- Neo-Marxism and the Frankfurt School
- The Adoration of the New
- Unmasking Consumer Culture
- Adorno and the Media
- The Construction of Consciousness
- Seeing Beyond the System
- The Situationists
- Debord and the Spectacle
- Every Choice a Pseudo-choice
- Right-wing Critiques of Capitalism
- Knowing Your Place
- Liberty and Difference
- 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
- About the Author
- Index
