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Intellectual History of Capitalism

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The intellectual history of capitalism examines the evolution of ideas, theories, and philosophies that have shaped capitalist economies and societies. It explores the contributions of key thinkers, the socio-political contexts of their work, and the impact of these ideas on economic practices and institutions throughout history.
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The intellectual history of capitalism examines the evolution of ideas, theories, and philosophies that have shaped capitalist economies and societies. It explores the contributions of key thinkers, the socio-political contexts of their work, and the impact of these ideas on economic practices and institutions throughout history.

Key research themes

1. How can capital be conceptually redefined to illuminate the dynamics of capitalism's history and operations?

This theme focuses on reconceptualizing the notion of capital beyond traditional materialist definitions to better understand capitalism's historical development and its socio-economic dynamics. It matters because existing historical accounts often treat capital as a mere physical factor of production, missing the pecuniary and valuation processes central to modern economic activity. A refined conceptualization influences how historians approach capitalism, revealing core mechanisms like investment-led valuation and systemic valuation processes.

Key finding: This paper advances a conceptualization of capital not as a physical factor of production but rather as a pecuniary, forward-looking process of valuation tied to investment, framing capitalism as driven by monetary circuits... Read more
Key finding: The study outlines how economics has expanded beyond its traditional boundaries (economic imperialism) by integrating new micro-foundations, particularly through imperfect market models, to analyze social behaviors within... Read more
Key finding: The collection offers nuanced insights into capitalism's moral and cultural contours, emphasizing the positive moral effects such as individual autonomy through free labor and market participation, contrasting traditional... Read more

2. What roles do contradictions and contestations play in shaping capitalism's intellectual and social history?

This theme investigates the nature of contradictions within capitalist theory and practice, examining how various conceptualizations of contradiction—economic, transcendental, and immanent—inform historical understandings of capitalism's development and crises. It is essential for understanding why capitalism persists, how internal tensions manifest, and how theorists negotiate capitalism's paradoxes in intellectual history.

Key finding: Proposes a typology of theories of contradiction in capitalism—economic, transcendental, and immanent—critiquing each for functionalism or reliance on ungrounded normative foundations. It advocates for a descriptive theory of... Read more
Key finding: The paper reframes the understanding of capitalism's contradictions by emphasizing 'cracks'—internal spaces of revolt and alternative praxis embedded within capitalism—as obscured by dominant dualisms (capitalism vs... Read more
Key finding: Horne's transnational historical analysis situates capitalism within settler colonialism's intertwined racial, class, and exploitative contradictions emerging in the seventeenth century. By tracing rebellions and racial... Read more

3. How does the global historical context reshape the study and conceptualization of capitalism's development?

This theme explores capitalism's evolution as embedded within global processes, transcending Eurocentric or national frameworks, and incorporating political economy, ecological factors, and legal transformations. It highlights the methodological and conceptual advances in global history that challenge narrow historiographies and underscore capitalism's interconnectedness with imperial, ecological, and legal regimes, thus transforming the intellectual history of capitalism into a more comprehensive, global, and multidisciplinary inquiry.

Key finding: This work affirms the intertwined relevance of global history and capitalism studies by critiquing both the scholarly neglect of global interconnections in capitalism's history and the nationalist framing of capitalist... Read more
Key finding: The paper reconstructs the legal transformations during the long sixteenth century as fundamental to forming the capitalist world-ecology, emphasizing how emergent international law underpinned capitalism's expansion through... Read more
Key finding: This edited volume situates capitalism within the socio-political and cultural upheavals of Weimar and Nazi Germany, highlighting capitalism’s resilience and adaptation amid nationalism, state intervention, and ideological... Read more

All papers in Intellectual History of Capitalism

Modern science has entered a paradox: while proclaiming openness, it often operates as a closed economic and ideological system. This paper examines the crisis of transparency in contemporary academic publishing and argues that the... more
This essay analyzes two Marxist interpretations of James Harrington. The first, developed by Achille Loria at the end of the nineteenth century, uses Harrington to force Marxism into a mechanistic and determinist dimension that imagines... more
Republication, lightly edited, of five essays on capitalism: 1. The Neglected Moral Benefits of the Market 2. Capitalism and Inequality 3. Capitalism and Nationalism 4. The Threat of Democracy to Capitalism 5. Capitalism and the Jews... more
This paper aims to address a lacuna in the Transition Debate by reconstructing the origins of international law as a central feature of the formation of the capitalist world-ecology throughout the long sixteenth century (c. 1450-1648). In... more
Sevgili Serkan çalışma konusu/nesnesi olarak Gebze'yi seçmiş. Gebze! Çocukluğum. Göç yolarını aşıp gelme hallerim. İlk taşeron–çocuk işçiliğim (Dilovası tersanesi). Devlet eli ile uygulanan “işçisin işçi kal” uygulaması... more
Tüm zamanlarda ve dünyanın her yerinde kadınlar ekonomiden sağlığa, eğitimden dış politikaya hayatın her alanından dışlanma ve ikincil bir statüye indirgenme durumuyla karşı karşıya kalmaktadır. Bu durum barışın sağlanması ve toplumun... more
Özgürlük İçin Sanat İnisiyatifi’nin düzenlediği “Sansür–Otosansür Baskısında Kültürel Kapan Buluşması” 5-6 Ekim 2024’te Şişli Belediyesi Nazım Hikmet Kültür ve Sanat Evi’de gerçekleşecek. Çalıştay kapsamında 5 Ekim’de saat 10.30’da... more
This article aims to examine the influence of creative accounting & earnings management practices on the quality and reliability of financial reporting along with gaining insights into the role of statutory auditors & professional... more
This article aims to examine the influence of creative accounting & earnings management practices on the quality and reliability of financial reporting along with gaining insights into the role of statutory auditors & professional... more
This article aims to examine the influence of creative accounting & earnings management practices on the quality and reliability of financial reporting along with gaining insights into the role of statutory auditors & professional... more
Doğanın devlet eliyle/gücüyle piyasa dinamiklerine teslim edilişine şahit olduğumuz son birkaç on yılda yerel ölçekte pek çok çevre mücadelesi doğdu. Özellikle 2000'li yıllarda, bu yıllara damgasını vuran neoliberal reformlarla birlikte... more
Emeğin etnikleşmesi ve feminizasyonu iç içe geçmiş süreçlerdir. Her birinin kendine özgü iç tarihi olmakla birlikte kapitalizm ve neoliberalizmle birlikte yeni bir boyuta taşınmıştır. Bu açıdan cinsiyet ve etnik kimlik emeğin sömürüsü... more
Sosyal politikanın gelişim sürecine bakıldığında, erken dönemlerde gerek bir bilimsel disiplin alanı gerekse politika uygulama alanı olarak odağına işçileri koyduğu, bu işçilerinse erkek işçiler olarak ele alındığı görülmektedir.... more
Dayanışma ekonomileri bugün tüm kıtalarda örnekleri bulunan, takas, potlaç ve kooperatifçilik gibi geleneklerden beslenen, globalleşen kapitalin yarattığı maddi ve manevi ihtiyaçlara yerel düzeyde karşılık gelebilecek, çok farklı... more
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Building a socialist rule of law state in Vietnam is currently one of the most important political tasks in our country. The situation of reality requires that it is necessary to deepen and study the ideas of the rule of law state of... more
Charlotte Prosch (c. 1821–1899) had a daguerreian portrait gallery in Newark, New Jersey, from 1847 to 1854, longer than her competitors in that city. This article traces her life and career, as well as the photographic activities of... more
The RESH Papers are intended to provide economic and social historians and other historians or economists at the University of Regensburg whose work is sufficiently intersecting with economic and social history with the possibility to... more
Benjamin Franklin pursued a path of encouraging moral virtue by enlisting the aid of the Christian church--once it had been purified of religious dogma by the American experience.
about religion, politics and literature provided my early modern interests with a sense of continuity with contemporary issues. I owe an immense debt of gratitude to all of them. My thanks to the staff of the Lockwood Memorial Library at... more
Le capitalisme contre la démocratie par Damien Larrouqué Q. Slobodian retrace la généalogie du néolibéralisme, scientifique d'abord, économique ensuite, et politique enfin. Il est au moins autant l'oeuvre intellectuelle des juristes qu'il... more
Düşük ücretli istihdam hem gelişmiş hem de gelişmekte olan ülkelerin işgücü piyasasında yaygın bir şekilde görülen bir istihdam türüdür. Düşük ücretli istihdamın ortaya çıkmasının nedenlerinden biri düşük ücret kalıcılığıdır. Bu... more
The Open Access version of this book, available at www.tandfebooks.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. Library of Congress Cataloging-In-Publication data: Labor... more
The Open Access version of this book, available at www.tandfebooks.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. Library of Congress Cataloging-In-Publication data: Labor... more
Gibt es einen deutschen Kapitalismus? Tradition und globale Perspektiven der sozialen Marktwirtschaft (Frankfurt, 2006); Ralf Ahrens, Boris Gehlen, and Alfred Reckendrees, eds., Die "Deutschland AG": Historische Annäherungen an den... more
Özet Düşük ücretli istihdam hem gelişmiş hem de gelişmekte olan ülkelerin işgücü piyasasında yaygın bir şekilde görülen bir istihdam türüdür. Düşük ücretli istihdamın ortaya çıkmasının nedenlerinden biri düşük ücret kalıcılığıdır. Bu... more
, the digging began: a band of a few in a Platform (1652) lays out in systematic fashi dozen established themselves on the deserted commons of tution of a communistic society in which all land w St. George's Hill in Surrey and began to... more
Gündelik yaşam coğrafyalarında gündelik pratikleri ve toplumsal mekânı örgütleyen toplumsal ilişkiler sisteminin sürekliliği içinde kadınlar, farklı mekânsal dokularda benzer gündelik-mekânsal pratiklerini deneyimlemektedir. Toplumsal... more
Şebnem Oğuz'un Türkiye'deki devlet biçimini/siyasal rejimi 'yeni faşizm' olarak nitelemesi eleştirilmekte, mevcut devlet ve siyasal rejimin neoliberal otoriter kapitalist devlet/demokrasi olduğu savunulmaktadır.
that the royal lands that had been seized as a result of the Civil War belonged to and should be redistributed to the people as an extension of those commons. Insisting that ‘kingly power’ should have died with the executed king, they... more
Bu çalışma, neoliberal genişleme sürecinde Akdeniz refah rejimi kavramı çerçevesinde kadın istihdamını artırmaya yönelik projelerin cinsiyetçi üzerinden analiz edilebilmesini amaçlamaktadır. Bu bağlamda, refah devleti ve refah rejim... more
Balıkesir İlahiyat Dergisi, yılda iki kez yayınlanan akademik uluslararası hakemli bir dergidir. BAİD'de yayınlanan yazıların bilimsel ve hukuki sorumluluğu yazarlarına aittir. Yayın dili Türkçe olmakla birlikte diğer dillerde de yazılar... more
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