It is this: trade, money, markets, private property, a price system form a limited mode of organizing commodity exchange capitalism-the dominance of a class of capitalist accumulators and managers in organizing and expanding production-is quite a different sociological cup of tea.
It is not a new lesson an American who has read Karl Polanyi will recall it, even if he has never been exposed to the earlier French and German writings on the origins of capitalism that lie clearly in Braudel's intellectual background. This whole work, in my view, has one important lesson to teach. The whole immense panorama is summarized in his Hopkins lectures, Afterthoughts on Material Civilization and Capitalism (1977). The levels are called material life, the market economy, and capitalism each occupies one of the three volumes of Braudel's massive and much-acclaimed trilogy, Civilization and Capitalism.
In Fernand Braudel's conception, economic history has existed at three levels, and "advanced" countries-the West, Japan, America-have encapsulated all three in their histories. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, notes, and index. Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century.
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