Further Readings: The Capitalist Revolution
Dr. Kumar Aniket
aniket.co.uk
Capitalism
Markets
- Simon Wren-Lewis writes an excellent macroeconomics blog called Mainly Macro.
- In a recent blog, he has reviewed the new Colin Crouch book Can Neoliberalism Be Saved from Itself?. The review discusses the different versions of markets that different interest groups present to society. The main point to take away is that markets and politics are very intricately intertwined.
Alternative perspective on Economics?
- Raworth, K. (2017). Doughnut economics. Seven ways to think like a 21st-century economist.
- The Travels of Ibn Battuta is a great source of information about living standards across the world in 14th Century AD. It is interesting to imagine how arduous his travels would have been.
- It also links to debate on how society’s relationship with space impacts the social institutions. Society’s relationship with space is determined by technology and government funded infrastructure. Thus, understanding this relationship is crucial for anything student who wants to learn construction economics.
- A good reading how human bipedalism and associated freedom of movement led to creating social institutions:
Watson, Peter. Ideas: a history of thought and invention, from fire to Freud. New York: HarperCollins, 2005. pages 29–41.
- A good reading on debate amongst the French philosophers about space shapes human mind:
Conley, Verena Andermatt. Spatial ecologies: Urban sites, state and world-space in French cultural theory. Vol. 21. Liverpool University Press, 2012.