Capital and Imperialism: Theory, History, and the Present

A comprehensive survey of capitalism's colonialist roots and uncertain future

Those who control the world’s commanding economic heights, buttressed by the theories of mainstream economists, presume that capitalism is a self—contained and self—generating system.
Nothing could be further from the truth. In this pathbreaking book—winner of the Paul A. Baran—Paul M.
Sweezy Memorial Award—radical political economists Utsa Patnaik and Prabhat Patnaik argue that the accumulation of capital has always...