Dobb, Brenner and Postan on the nature and origin of capitalism.
This article provides a comparison of the views of Maurice Dobb, Robert Brenner and Michael Postan on the nature and origin of modern capitalism. Dobb, a leading Marxist at Cambridge, triggered the influential transition debate within Marxian historiography on the origin of capitalism. Brenner initi...
| Publicado en: | Cambridge Journal of Economics Vol. 50; no. 4; pp. 787 - 811 |
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