Capital dominated the imagination of Western society in the age of greatest economic development, from the Industrial Revolution to the 1970s. Means and Ends provides for the first time a comprehensive interpretation of the rise, evolution and crisis of this concept within and outside political economy from the sixteenth century to the modern day. Based on a wealth of primary sources, it offers an exciting study of intellectual and cultural history.

Introduction  
Capital as Money: The Emergence of Modernity
Land and Labour 1650-1800
Reproduction and Transition
Industrial Maturity
The Revolt of 1867
The Atlantic Reaction
The Continent 1870-1938
Keynes and After: Crisis and Continuity

FRANCESCO BOLDIZZONI is a Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge and a Research Officer at the Institute of Economic History, Bocconi University, Milan.