Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The Ideology of Precapitalist Europe; Chapter 2 The Transition to Early Capitalism and the Beginnings of the Mercantilist View; Chapter 3 The Conflict in Mercantilist Thought; Chapter 4 Classical Liberalism and the Triumph of Industrial Capitalism; Chapter 5 Socialist Protest Amid the Industrial Revolution; Chapter 6 Marx’s Conception of Capitalism; Chapter 7 Marx’s Social and Economic Theories; Chapter 8 The Rise of Corporate Capitalism and Its Ideological Defenses; Chapter 9 The Consolidation of Monopoly Power and the Writings of Veblen; Chapter 10 Economic Prosperity and Evolutionary Socialism; Chapter 11 Imperialism and Revolutionary Socialism; Chapter 12 Keynesian Economics and the Great Depression; Chapter 13 Contemporary American Capitalism and Its Defenders; Chapter 14 Contemporary American Capitalism and Its Radical Critics;