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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... small - scale producers and the construction of laissez - faire are closely con- nected , so much so that Marx , or at least his translators , labeled this expropriation of the masses as " primitive accumulation . " The very sound of ...
... small - scale producers and the construction of laissez - faire are closely con- nected , so much so that Marx , or at least his translators , labeled this expropriation of the masses as " primitive accumulation . " The very sound of ...
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... small - scale , rural producers . As we will see , the underlying development strategy of the classical political economists was consistent with a crude proto - Marxian model of primitive accumulation , which concluded that nonmarket ...
... small - scale , rural producers . As we will see , the underlying development strategy of the classical political economists was consistent with a crude proto - Marxian model of primitive accumulation , which concluded that nonmarket ...
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... small-scale producers, classical political economy called for state interventions of one sort or another to hobble these people's ability to produce for their own needs. These policy recommendations amounted to a blatant manipulation of ...
... small-scale producers, classical political economy called for state interventions of one sort or another to hobble these people's ability to produce for their own needs. These policy recommendations amounted to a blatant manipulation of ...
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... small-scale producers. This chapter also dis- cusses how classical political economy applied the calculus of primitive accumulation. It details the relationship between early classical political economy and the rural population with an ...
... small-scale producers. This chapter also dis- cusses how classical political economy applied the calculus of primitive accumulation. It details the relationship between early classical political economy and the rural population with an ...
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... small-scale agri- cultural producers to the interests of capital. This book may be controversial in that it contradicts the commonly accepted theory that classical political economy offered its unconditional support for the doctrine of ...
... small-scale agri- cultural producers to the interests of capital. This book may be controversial in that it contradicts the commonly accepted theory that classical political economy offered its unconditional support for the doctrine of ...
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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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