Ebook: Property and prophets: the evolution of economic institutions and ideologies

Ideology of precapitalist Europe -- Transition to early capitalism and the beginnings of the mercantilist view -- Conflict in mercantilist thought -- Classical liberalism and the triumph of industrial capitalism -- Socialist protest amid the Industrial Revolution -- Marx's conception of capitalism -- Marx's social and economic theory -- Rise of corporate capitalism and its ideological defenses -- Consolidation of monopoly power and the writings of Veblen -- Economic prosperity and evolutionary socialism -- Imperialism and revolutionary socialism -- Keynesian economics and the Great Depression -- Contemporary American capitalism and its defenders -- Contemporary American capitalism and its radical critics.