Early Modern Capitalism
Subtitle: Economic and Social Change in Europe 1400-1800 (Routledge Explorations in Economic History)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: January 8, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780415217149
First sentence: During the 1950s and 1960s a distinguished generation of Marxist and neo-Malthusian scholars led by M. M. Postan (1973), Wilhelm Abel (1935), Ernest Labrousse (1933), Fernand Braudel (1982-84, Volume 2), Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (1966), Maurice Dobb (1946), and Rodney Hilton (1975; also Bois 1984) established the view - later to be enshrined as the so-called 'Brenner debate' (Aston and Philpin 1985) - that pre-modern, 'traditional' societies did not undergo significant long-run intensive per capita economic growth for lack of technological innovation.