Capitalists in Spite of Themselves: Elite Conflict and Economic Transitions in Early Modern Europe

by Richard Lachmann

Book Overview

Here, Richard Lachmann offers a new answer to an old question: Why did capitalism develop in some parts of early modern Europe but not in others? Finding neither a single cause nor an essentialist unfolding of a state or capitalist system, Lachmann describes the highly contingent development of various polities and economies. He identifies, in particular, conflict among feudal elites--landlords, clerics, kings, and officeholders--as the dynamic which...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195159608
• ISBN13: 9780195159608
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.2"