Market and Violence: The Functioning of Capitalism in History

by Heide Gerstenberger

** Winner of the Deutscher Memorial Prize 2023. ** Despite their many disagreements when it comes to the subject of capitalism, Marxist and market-liberal approaches seem to agree about one thing: the economic structures of capitalist market society have made direct violence against the person not only superfluous, but economically counterproductive. Heide Gerstenberger's Market and Violence does not contest the thesis that there has been,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004522123
• ISBN13: 9789004522121
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 756 Pages