Fred Block, “Varieties of What? Should We Still Be Using the Concept of Capitalism?” in Political Power and Social Theory, vol. 23, ed. Julian Go (Bingley, UK: Emerald Books, 2012), 269–291; Wolfgang Streeck, Re-Forming Capitalism: Institutional Change in the German Political Economy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).
Two of Polanyi’s concepts feature prominently in both Block and Streeck: the “double movement,” wherein the market evades regulation (first movement) and is then regulated anew (second movement); and the social “embeddedness” of institutions.
The classic work here is Hans Robert Jauss, Toward an Aesthetic of Reception, trans. Timothy Bahti (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1982).
Maurice Dobb, Studies in the Development of Capitalism, rev. ed. (New York: International Publishers, 1981), 4.
Eve Chiapello, “Accounting and the birth of the notion of Capitalism,” Critical Perspectives on Accounting 18 (2007): 263–296.
Blanc quoted in E. Deschepper, L’histoire du mot capital et de ses derives (Brussels: Philologie Romane, Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres, Université Libre de Bruxelles, mémoire de recherche, 1964), quoted in Chiapello, ibid.
According to the OED, the word first appears in English to describe the concentration of power in Buenos Aires, the capital city of Argentina, before showing up in reference to economics in the 1830s.
Werner Sombart, “Capitalism,” in Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, eds. E. R. Seligman and A. Johnson (New York: Macmillan , 1930), 195–208.
Ibid, 5.
Sombart, Quintessence Of Capitalism (New York: Howard Fertig, 1967), 25, quoted in Dobb, Studies in the Development of Capitalism.
Max Weber, General Economic History, 275, and The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, 64. Both quoted in Dobb, 5.
Not religious history, because, as Weber was keen to point out, the spirit of capitalism is not equivalent to Protestant doctrine but is instead a product of the effect of those ideas on economic organization. Sombart, for his part, argued that commerce in the Middle Ages was inspired by the spirit of handiwork rather than the spirit of capitalism.
I am thinking of Bell’s Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism and David Brooks’s Bobos in Paradise.
Dobb, Studies in the Development of Capitalism, 6.
Ibid, 7.
Giovanni Arrighi, The Long Twentieth Century (New York: Verso, 1994), 26.
We see the same logic at work throughout Peter Swenson’s work, as is evident from the title of his Capitalists Against Markets.
Immanuel Wallerstein, “Braudel on Capitalism, or Everything Upside Down,” The Journal of Modern History, vol. 63, no. 2, A Special Issue on Modern France (June 1991): 354–361.
Ferdinand Braudel, The Wheels of Commerce, Civilization and Capitalism, 15th–18th Century (New York: Harper & Row, 1982), 433.
Dobb, Studies in the Development of Capitalism, 8.
Ibid, 27.
Ibid., 7.
Robert Brenner, The Boom and the Bubble (New York: Verso, 2008), 285.
Continued in “Genres of Capitalism, Part II”