"With its deep roots and global scope, the capitalist system provides the framework for our lives--a framework of c
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Table of contents :
Content: The puzzle of capitalism --
Trading in new directions --
Crucial developments in the countryside --
Commentary on markets and human nature --
The two faces of eighteenth-century capitalism --
The ascent of Germany and the United States --
The industrial leviathans and their opponents --
Rulers as capitalists --
War and depression --
A new level of prosperity --
Capitalism in new settings --
Into the twenty-first century --
Of crises and critics.