The origin of capitalism
By: Ellen Meiksins Wood.
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 138
Subjects: Capitalism -- History
Description: "In The Origin of Capitalism, Ellen Meiksins Wood challenges most existing accounts of capitalism's origins, arguing that they fail to recognize its distinctive attributes as a social system by making its emergence seem natural and inevitable."--BOOK JACKET. "Only with a proper understanding of capitalism's beginning, Wood holds, can we imagine the possibility of it ending."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-131)  and index.