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The Invention of Capitalism: Classical Political Economy and the Secret History of Primitive Accumulation
by Michael Perelman (Author), Michael Perelman (Author)
“This volume raises a number of pertinent questions regarding the important matter of how property rights are redistributed in the course of economic development and calls attention to a number of interesting but neglected writers.”
--D. Mitch, Choice
“An eye-opening book which should be required reading for every economist.” (Five of five stars)
--Business Ethics
“[A] lively polemic directed at the Classical political economists. . . .”
--Gregory Clark, EH.NET
“Perelman’s study of the ideological support for primitive accumulation raises a set of significant issues at the conjunction of liberal political thought and classical political economy that deserve further investigation.”
--Vikash Yadav, Theory and Event
“[A] clearly written, vigorously argued book . . . .”
--Jay Carlander, Labor History
“[P]rovocative . . . . [A] welcome stimulus to debate among researchers in the history of economic thought, and may also be a valuable reference for advanced political economy and history of economic thought courses.”
--Bruce Philp, History of Economics Review
"Perelman has done a remarkable job examining and synthesizing the work of Smith Steuart, Wakefield, and Ricardo, among others, with an eye toward their views on primitive accumulation. . . . [T]he breadth and novelty of Perelman's claims make The Invention of Capitalism a book to be read, discussed, and debated."
--John S. Nader, Review of Radical Political Economics
Book Description
The originators of classical political economy—Adam Smith, David Ricardo, James Steuart, and others—created a discourse that explained the logic, the origin, and, in many respects, the essential rightness of capitalism. But, in the great texts of that discourse, these writers downplayed a crucial requirement for capitalism’s creation: For it to succeed, peasants would have to abandon their self-sufficient lifestyle and go to work for wages in a factory. Why would they willingly do this?
Clearly, they did not go willingly. As Michael Perelman shows, they were forced into the factories with the active support of the same economists who were making theoretical claims for capitalism as a self-correcting mechanism that thrived without needing government intervention. Directly contradicting the laissez-faire principles they claimed to espouse, these men advocated government policies that deprived the peasantry of the means for self-provision in order to coerce these small farmers into wage labor. To show how Adam Smith and the other classical economists appear to have deliberately obscured the nature of the control of labor and how policies attacking the economic independence of the rural peasantry were essentially conceived to foster primitive accumulation, Perelman examines diaries, letters, and the more practical writings of the classical economists. He argues that these private and practical writings reveal the real intentions and goals of classical political economy—to separate a rural peasantry from their access to land.
This rereading of the history of classical political economy sheds important light on the rise of capitalism to its present state of world dominance. Historians of political economy and Marxist thought will find that this book broadens their understanding of how capitalism took hold in the industrial age.
本书阐述了古典政治经济学的创始人——亚当·期密、大卫·李嘉图、詹姆斯·史都华等所创造的话语系统，解释了资本主义的逻辑、起源、从很多方面也解释了资本主义的根本正确性。本书提示了古典政治经济学的真正用意和目标，那就是农民与土地分隔开来。
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Introduction: Dark Designs 1
1 The Enduring Importance of Primitive Accumulation 13
2 The Theory of Primitive Accumulation 25
3 Primitive Accumulation and the Game Laws 38
4 The Social Division of Labor and Household Production 59
5 Elaborating the Model of Primitive Accumulation 92
6 The Dawn of Political Economy 124
7 Sir James Steuart’s Secret History of Primitive Accumulation 139
8 Adam Smith’s Charming Obfuscation of Class 171
9 The Revisionist History of Professor Adam Smith 196
10 Adam Smith and the Ideological Role of the Colonies 229
11 Benjamin Franklin and the Smithian Ideology of Slavery and Wage Labor 254
12 The Classics as Cossacks: Classical Political Economy versus the Working Class 280
13 The Counterattack 321
14 Notes on Development 352
Conclusion 369
References 371
Index 407
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