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Author Amin, Samir, author

Title Theory is history / Samir Amin
Published Cham ; New York : Springer, [2014]
©2014

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 143 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
Series SpringerBriefs on pioneers in science and practice, Texts and protocols, 2194-3125 ; volume 17
SpringerBriefs on pioneers in science and practice. Texts and protocols ; v. 17.
Contents The globalised law of value -- Capitalism and ground rent -- Modernity and interpretations of religions -- Re-reading the post war period -- Historical capitalism; accumulation by dispossession -- The two paths of historical development; the contrast between Europe and China -- Russia in the world system; geography or history? -- China, the emerging nation
Summary This book focuses on a central concept that 'Theory is History', as the theory of capitalism can only be formulated on the basis of an analysis of its history. In contrast, bourgeois thinking replaces the analysis of historical capitalism with an abstract theory without any links to reality. 'Economics', which is the theory of an imaginary system, then becomes an apologia intended to give legitimacy to the behaviour of the owners of capital. The author pays special attention to the globalization of the law of value. The individual chapters illustrate the author's thesis by focusing on the links between capital and land ownership, between modernity and religious interpretation, and on questions of the global expansion of capitalism, particularly the ways it has evolved in certain countries, in this case Russia and China. This anthology supplements the author's previous work, centred on the rise of the South-his reading of capitalism focusing on its imperialist nature
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 9, 2014)
Subject Capitalism.
Economics.
Economics
economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference.
Droit.
Sciences sociales.
Sciences humaines.
Capitalism
Economics
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783319038162
3319038168