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Los economistas se inclinan a pensar que la economía de mercado existe siempre, que está en desarrollo o «creciendo». Los historiadores -y los antropólogos- saben muy bien que no es así; han existido sociedades no mercantiles bastante viables sobre una base de instituciones «consuetudinarias»; otras han encarnado economías «de ingresos», recurriendo a los excedentes agrícolas.
En este libro se intenta tender un puente entre estos diferentes enfoques de la historia y la teoría económica. Su tema es la evolución de la economía de mercado, y de sus formas e instituciones. Si bien esta evolución ha producido muchos beneficios, también tiene sus lados más oscuros, como la esclavitud, la usura y los aspectos más ignotos de la colonización. El autor, un eminente economista británico, presta considerable atención a estos últimos. Su discusión culmina con un análisis de la Revolución Industrial, cuya lógica, sostiene, no ha sido en absoluto comprendida en su totalidad.
El libro es una «teoría», que se ocupa de los principios; pero los principios se ilustran con ejemplos extraídos de cuatro mil años de historia, y de muchos lugares, no solo de Europa, sino del resto del mundo.
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A Theory of Economic History
May 10, 1973, Oxford University Press, USA
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0198811632 9780198811633
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Economists are inclined to think of the market economy as always existing, just developing or "growing". Historians —and anthropologists— know very well that this is not the case; quite viable non-market societies have existed upon a base of "customary" institutions; others have embodied "revenue" economies, drawing upon agricultural surplus.
An attempot is made in this book to bridge these differing approaches to economic history and teory. Its subject is the evolution of the market economy, and of its forms and institutions. While this evolution has produced many benefits, it has also its darker sides, such as slavery, usury, and the ignobler aspects of colonization. The author, an eminent British economist, dives considerable attention to these last. His discussion culminates in an analysis of the Industrial Revolution, the logic of which, he maintains, has by no means been fully comprehended.
The book is "theory", concerned with principles; but the principles are illustrated by examples drawn from four thousand years of history, and from many places, not only in Europe, but in the rest of the world.
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