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SUMMARY:Capitalism – a concept too big to fail? - Craig Muldrew\, Cambri
 dge
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CONTACT:Amy Erickson
DESCRIPTION:The use of the term capitalism is so pervasive today that tryi
 ng to define what it means in practice seems impossible. There are many th
 ings we might term ‘capitalist’\, but just as many exceptions and diff
 erent ways of putting parts of the economy under state control.    Thirty 
 five years ago it was easier to define capitalism by simply pointing to wh
 at it was not –it was not a planned communist economy aimed at equality 
 of access to\, and distribution of goods and services.  Now\, however\, ca
 pitalism is used to describe most economies\, even that of the officially 
 communist PCR.  Yet\, understanding it is undeniably crucial to any aspect
  of politics\, individual choice\, and collective action.  This paper will
  examine how the term came into being in the early twentieth century\, and
  then how different historians took it up to argue that it emerged in Euro
 pean societies in the period from roughly the Italian Renaissance until th
 e end of the eighteenth century.  The concept was used\, and continues to 
 be used\, in many different and ambiguous ways. This paper will argue that
  greater understanding can only be gained by being more precise about how 
 we conceptualize different aspects of the emerging European and global eco
 nomy of the early modern period.
LOCATION:History Faculty Room 6\, and online via zoom (for login details s
 ign up to ucam-ecosochist@lists.cam.ac.uk)
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