History of Global Capitalism

Sambit Bhattacharyya is a Reader in Economics at the University of Sussex, UK. He has published widely and made significant contributions to the fields of development economics, economic history and political economy. He co-edits an influential international journal on development economics. He also appeared on TV and Radio programmes and advised governments on public policy issues.

• Capitalism and Elite Feud: A Short Introduction.- PART I: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK.- A Unified Theory of Rent, Elite Feuds and Imperial Expansion.- PART II: RENT, ELITE FEUDS AND IMPERIAL EXPANSION IN EARLY MODERN AND MODERN EUROPE.- Atlanticism, the Slave Trade and Westward Expansion of Western Europe.- The Adventures and Misadventures of Expansion in Eastern and Central Europe.- Western European Expansionism in India, China and Indonesia.- Expansionism in the American and Australian Colonies.- Expansionism, Russian Revolution and the Two World Wars.- PART III: THE POST WAR PERIOD.- Cold War Rivalry in a Bipolar World.- Dissolution of the USSR and Russian Decline in the 1990s.- End of History and Exceptionalism: International System after 1991.- The Rise of China, India and Russia: The Building Blocks of a New International System.- PART IV: Going Forward: What to Expect?.- Rivalry, Expansionism and the Future of the International System.- PART V: A SURVEY OF THE LITERATURE.- Long Run Economic Development: A Survey of the Literature.