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Dobb, Brenner and Postan on the nature and origin of capitalism
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This article provides a comparison of the views of Maurice Dobb, Robert Brenner and Michael Postan on the nature and origin of modern capitalism. Dobb, a leading Marxist at Cambridge, triggered the influential transition debate within Marxian historiography on the origin of capitalism. Brenner initiated another debate which was, in several ways, a continuation of the transition debate, while further extending the Marxian view, and criticising Postan’s neo-Malthusian approach to historical demography, which became the dominant view at Cambridge and beyond. It is argued here that the Marxist view advanced by Dobb and Brenner and the Malthusian view adopted by Postan can be best understood in connection with different developments of classical political economy. Those debates are here analysed taking into account their relationship to economic thought, and their relevance for debates on tracing the nature and origin of modern capitalism.
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Capitalism Class Classical political economy Feudalism Historical demography
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Oxford University Press
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