The Long Twentieth Century : Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times (Paperback)

from enoerew

Excellent description of overlapping systems of capital accumulation stretching back to the Italian city-states of Venice and Genoa. For a novice in economic studies the financial language and concepts can be daunting, but one cannot experience this work without attaining a completely renewed per...

from machala

Surely one of the best books I've ever read. Arrighi has fascinating ideas about capitalism as a historical phenomenon and about its uncertain future.

from HadriantheBlind

This is an expansive economic history of the modern world - it draws ideas from Adam Smith, Polanyi's conceptions of the free market, Marx's histories of capitalist societies, Braudel's theory of civilizations, Wallenstein's 'world-systems theory', and Schumpeter's 'creative destruction'.Arrighi'...

from enoerew

Excellent description of overlapping systems of capital accumulation stretching back to the Italian city-states of Venice and Genoa. For a novice in economic studies the financial language and concepts can be daunting, but one cannot experience this work without attaining a completely renewed per...

from machala

Surely one of the best books I've ever read. Arrighi has fascinating ideas about capitalism as a historical phenomenon and about its uncertain future.