Perspectives on Capitalism: A Nine-Book Collection

Nine Classic Views on Wealth, Labor, Trade, Inequality, and the Struggles of Modern IndustryBy Garet Garrett, Rosa Luxemburg, Trumbull White, R. H. Tawney, Upton Sinclair, Achille Loria, Henri Pirenne, Mack Reynolds, Henry Blake Fuller
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Perspectives on Capitalism: A Nine-Book Collection assembles a searching, often contentious archive of capitalism's theories, histories, crises, and human consequences. Crossing political economy, social history, revolutionary criticism, libertarian argument, reformist analysis, and social fiction, the volume refuses a single definition of its subject. Analytical treatises and historical narratives stand beside imaginative works that render class conflict, speculation, industrial discipline, and consumer aspiration in lived terms. Its range makes capitalism appear not merely as an economic system but as a contested cultural and moral order. The contributors represent markedly different intellectual and political traditions: socialist and Marxist critique, liberal and conservative commentary, institutional economic history, Catholic social thought, and American literary realism and science fiction. Their careers span the late nineteenth century through the twentieth, periods shaped by industrial expansion, labor militancy, imperial rivalry, depression, war, and debates over planning and freedom. Brought together, these voices illuminate the enduring dialogue between defenders of markets, historians of commercial civilization, and critics of inequality and exploitation. This collection is especially valuable for readers seeking a comparative education in capitalism's competing interpretations. Students, scholars, and general readers will find within one volume a rich plurality of methods, registers, and political judgments. Reading the works in conversation encourages careful attention to how economic ideas become historical narratives, social diagnoses, and literary visions.

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GenreBusiness and Economics, Literary Classics
Length98 hrs 19 mins
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Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1The Stages in the Social History of Capitalism
2The Stages in the Social History of Capitalism
3THE STAGES IN THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF CAPITALISM
4Footnote
5The Accumulation of Capital
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6The Accumulation of Capital
7INTRODUCTION
8SECTION ONE
9CHAPTER III
10CHAPTER V
11CHAPTER VII
12CHAPTER VIII
13SECTION TWO
14CHAPTER XII
15CHAPTER XVI
16SECTION TWO
17CHAPTER XXIII
18CHAPTER XXVI
19CHAPTER XXVII
20CHAPTER XXX
21CHAPTER XXXI
22Footnote
23The Driver
24The Driver
25CHAPTER I PHANTASMA
26CHAPTER III GALT
27CHAPTER V VERA
28CHAPTER VIII LOW WATER
29CHAPTER XI HEARTH NOTES
30CHAPTER XIV THE COMBAT
31CHAPTER XVI GATE OF ENIGMA
32The Wizard of Wall Street and His Wealth; or, The Life and Deeds of Jay Gould
33PREFACE.
34ILLUSTRATIONS.
35CHAPTER I. JAY GOULD A GREAT MAN.
36CHAPTER II. YOUTH AND ANCESTRY OF JAY GOULD.
37CHAPTER III. GOULD AS SURVEYOR AND HISTORIAN.
38CHAPTER IV. GOULD AND THE TANNERY WAR.
39CHAPTER V. GOULD’S ROMANTIC MARRIAGE AND HIS FIRST RAILROAD.
40CHAPTER VI. GOULD’S ASSAULT UPON ERIE.
41CHAPTER VII. GOULD’S VICTORY AND FINAL DEFEAT IN ERIE.
42CHAPTER VIII. THE GOLD CONSPIRACY.
43CHAPTER IX. CULMINATION OF CONSPIRACY—BLACK FRIDAY.
44CHAPTER X. GOULD AND THE WESTERN RAILWAY SYSTEMS.
45CHAPTER XI. GOULD AND THE TELEGRAPH MONOPOLY.
46CHAPTER XII. GOULD AND THE MANHATTAN ELEVATED.
47CHAPTER XIII. THE LIFE OF A WALL STREET KING.
48CHAPTER XIV. THE KING IS DEAD.
49CHAPTER XV. GOULD LAID TO REST.
50CHAPTER XVI. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF JAY GOULD.

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