History of capitalism

transition to new manufacturing processes in Europe and the United States, in the 18th-19th centuries

foundational theoretical text of Karl Marx

Laissez-faire ( , from , ) implies that nothing restricts what happens, irrespective of the potential consequences.

1776 work on economics by Adam Smith

increasing economic interdependence of national economies across the world

multidisciplinary, macro-scale approach to world history and social change that stresses that the world-system should be the primary unit of social analysis

review of the economic system of capitalism.

term used by critics of capitalism to describe the current version of the political and economic formation

1944 essay by Karl Polanyi

term coined by Werner Sombart