The Invention of Capitalism: Classical Political Economy and the Secret History of Primitive AccumulationDuke University Press, 2000/05/03 - 424 ページ The originators of classical political economy—Adam Smith, David Ricardo, James Steuart, and others—created a discourse that explained the logic, the origin, and, in many respects, the essential rightness of capitalism. But, in the great texts of that discourse, these writers downplayed a crucial requirement for capitalism’s creation: For it to succeed, peasants would have to abandon their self-sufficient lifestyle and go to work for wages in a factory. Why would they willingly do this? Clearly, they did not go willingly. As Michael Perelman shows, they were forced into the factories with the active support of the same economists who were making theoretical claims for capitalism as a self-correcting mechanism that thrived without needing government intervention. Directly contradicting the laissez-faire principles they claimed to espouse, these men advocated government policies that deprived the peasantry of the means for self-provision in order to coerce these small farmers into wage labor. To show how Adam Smith and the other classical economists appear to have deliberately obscured the nature of the control of labor and how policies attacking the economic independence of the rural peasantry were essentially conceived to foster primitive accumulation, Perelman examines diaries, letters, and the more practical writings of the classical economists. He argues that these private and practical writings reveal the real intentions and goals of classical political economy—to separate a rural peasantry from their access to land. This rereading of the history of classical political economy sheds important light on the rise of capitalism to its present state of world dominance. Historians of political economy and Marxist thought will find that this book broadens their understanding of how capitalism took hold in the industrial age. |
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... forces might be required to speed up the process of capitalist assimilation in the countryside . This model also explains why most of the classical political economists expressed positions diametrically opposed to the theories usually ...
... forces might be required to speed up the process of capitalist assimilation in the countryside . This model also explains why most of the classical political economists expressed positions diametrically opposed to the theories usually ...
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... forces to determine the social division of labor because they found the tenacity of traditional rural producers to be distasteful. Rather than contending that market forces should determine the fate of these small-scale producers ...
... forces to determine the social division of labor because they found the tenacity of traditional rural producers to be distasteful. Rather than contending that market forces should determine the fate of these small-scale producers ...
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... forces of capital- ism, it would have far less contemporary interest. Just as a psychologist might detect a crucial revelation in a seemingly offhand remark of a patient, from time to time classical political economy discloses to us ...
... forces of capital- ism, it would have far less contemporary interest. Just as a psychologist might detect a crucial revelation in a seemingly offhand remark of a patient, from time to time classical political economy discloses to us ...
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... force — albeit highly symbolic — that calls new generations to confront them once again . This process reinforces the stature of the “ founders " of political economy , thereby confirming their status as " stars . " Moreover , the ...
... force — albeit highly symbolic — that calls new generations to confront them once again . This process reinforces the stature of the “ founders " of political economy , thereby confirming their status as " stars . " Moreover , the ...
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... forces that still shape our lives. Specifically, the struggle against self- provisioning is not confined to the distant past. It continues to this day (see Perelman 1991b). In effect, we can look at the eclipse of precapitalist ...
... forces that still shape our lives. Specifically, the struggle against self- provisioning is not confined to the distant past. It continues to this day (see Perelman 1991b). In effect, we can look at the eclipse of precapitalist ...
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3 Primitive Accumulation and the Game Laws | 38 |
4 The Social Division of Labor and Household Production | 59 |
5 Elaborating the Model of Primitive Accumulation | 92 |
6 The Dawn of Political Economy | 124 |
7 Sir James Steuarts Secret History of Primitive Accumulation | 139 |
10 Adam Smith and the Ideological Role of the Colonies | 229 |
11 Benjamin Franklin and the Smithian Ideology of Slavery and Wage Labor | 254 |
Classical Political Economy versus the Working Class | 280 |
13 The Counterattack | 321 |
14 Notes on Development | 352 |
Conclusion | 369 |
References | 371 |
Index | 407 |
8 Adam Smiths Charming Obfuscation of Class | 171 |
9 The Revisionist History of Professor Adam Smith | 196 |
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