The Transition to Capitalism in Modern France: Primitive Accumulation and Markets from the Old Regime to the post-WWII Era

By Stephen Miller, Xavier Lafrance, Stephen Miller

This book challenges the foregoing consensus by showing that the French economy performed poorly relative to its rivals because of non-capitalist social relations. Specifically, peasants and artisans controlled the lands and workshops in autonomous communities and did not have to improve labor productivity to survive.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367553007
• ISBN13: 9780367553005
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"