The Cash Nexus
by Niall Ferguson |
Capitalism and the Historians
by F. A. Hayek |
The Origin of Capitalism
by Ellen Meiksins Wood | 
The Birth of Plenty
by William J. Bernstein |
The Myth of the Robber Barons
by Burton W. Folsom | 
A Splendid Exchange
by William J. Bernstein | 
Empire of Wealth
by John Steele Gordon | 
The Gifts of Athena
by Joel Mokyr | 
The Accidental Superpower
by Peter Zeihan | 
Open Veins of Latin America
by Eduardo Galeano |
Web of Debt
by Ellen Hodgson Brown | 
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
by Walter Rodney | 
The Forgotten Man
by Amity Shlaes | 
The New Road to Serfdom
by Daniel Hannan |
Late Victorian Holocausts
by Mike Davis | 
The Global Minotaur
by Yanis Varoufakis |
The Case Against the Fed
by Murray N. Rothbard | 
The Lords of Creation
by Frederick Lewis Allen | 
The Marshall Plan
by Benn Steil | 
There Is Power in a Union
by Philip Dray |
The Long Twentieth Century traces the relationship between capital accumulation and state formation over a 700-year period. Arrighi argues that capitalism has unfolded as a succession of "long centuries," each of which produced a new world power that secured control over an expanding world-economic space. Examining the changing fortunes of Florentine, Venetian, Genoese, Dutch, English and finally American capitalism, Arrighi concludes with an examination of the forces that have shaped and are now poised to undermine America's world dominance. A masterpiece of historical sociology, The Long Twentieth Century rivals in scope and ambition contemporary classics by Perry Anderson, Charles Tilly and Michael Mann.