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Capitalism from Above and Capitalism from Below

An Essay in Comparative Political Economy

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  • © 1996

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  1. Terence J. Byres

    1. School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  5. Some Conclusions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 415-415
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    2. The Comparison, Some Implications, and Some Contemporary ‘Lessons’

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      Pages 417-436

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 437-490
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The distinction between 'capitalism from above' and 'capitalism from below' is important in the analysis of the agrarian question in poor countries. The 'Prussian path' and the 'American path' are here examined, against existing historical scholarship. Their unfolding, from their earliest roots to the point of final 'agrarian transition' in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, is considered. The dialectic between social relations and productive forces, mediated as it was by the state, is treated and the implications for capitalist industrialisation scrutinised.

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  • School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK

    Terence J. Byres

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