Merchants and Colonialism

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-19-948668-7
Verlag: Hurst & Co.

Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 117 mm x 180 mm, Gewicht: 159 g

Merchants and Colonialism is part of the Occasional Papers series circulated by the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata. Amiya Bagchi provides a historiographic account of the traditional role of merchants in pre colonial India and identifies how these roles were different from the role of the capitalist in post-colonial India. In general, the behaviour of merchants in precapitalist societies was, according to Bagchi, widely different from
that of capitalists in developed capitalist societies. In developed capitalist societies, capitalists, generally with state support, played a very important part in modifying techniques of production and seeking ways of expanding their markets. By contrast, the pace of modification of techniques of production was
slower in precapitalist societies and owners of capital did not play a significant role in such modification.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bagchi, Amiya

Chaudhuri, Rosinka

Weitere Mitwirkende

Chaudhuri, Rosinka

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Arbeitsmarkt
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Postkoloniale Geschichte, Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geschichte der VWL
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus

Über Autor(innen)

Amiya Kumar Bagchi is a distinguished political economist who has contributed to the Marxist perspective, development studies and political economy. A former Professor at the CSSSC, he has also taught at Cambridge, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences in Paris and Cornell among others. He has been the recipient of the VKRV Rao Award for Economics, 1980.