1st Edition

A Marxist History of Capitalism

By Henry Heller Copyright 2019
158 Pages
by Routledge

158 Pages
by Routledge

158 Pages
by Routledge

Henry Heller’s short account of the history of capitalism combines Marx’s economic and political thought with contemporary scholarship to shed light on the current capitalist crisis. It argues that capitalism is an evolving mode of production that has now outgrown its institutional and political limits. The book provides an overview of the different historical stages of capitalism, underpinned... Read more

Introduction

1. Merchant capitalism

2. The political economy of capitalist transition

3. Ascendant capitalism (1789–1980)

4. Neoliberalism (1980–2017)

5. Towards socialism

Biography

Henry Heller is Professor of History at the University of Manitoba, Canada.