Political Economy and the Rise of Capitalism
  Acknowledgments
  Introduction

 collapse sectionChapter One  From Feudalism to Capitalism: The Historical Context of Classical Political Economy
 •The Crisis of European Feudalism
 •England: Towards Agrarian Capitalism
 •France: The Rise of Absolutism
 •Conclusion
 expand sectionChapter two  Rent and Taxes: The Origins of Classical Political Economy
 expand sectionChapter Three  The Paradox of the Physiocrats: State Building and Agrarian Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century France
 expand sectionChapter Four  Commerce, Corruption, and Civil Society: The Social and Philosophical Foundations of The Wealth of Nations
 expand sectionChapter five  Agrarian Capitalism and The Wealth of Nations
  Conclusion: Political Economy and Capitalism

 expand sectionNotes
 expand sectionBibliography
 expand sectionIndex
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