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The Servile State

By Hilaire Belloc

Book information

Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Year
2008
ISBN
1440476438, 9781440476433
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
200 kB (204361 bytes)
Pages
116\0
Time added
2015-08-22 20:04:53
Theory Economics Business Money

Description

The Servile State is a book written by Hilaire Belloc in 1912 about economics. Although it mentions Distributism, for which he and his friend G. K. Chesterton are famous, it avoids explicit advocation for that economic system. This book lays out, in very broad outline, Belloc's version of European economic history: starting with ancient states, where slavery was critical to the economy, through the medieval economies based on serf and peasant labor, to capitalism. Belloc argues that the development of capitalism was not a natural consequence of the Industrial Revolution, but a consequence of the earlier dissolution of the monasteries in England, which then shaped the course of English industrialization.

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