The Invariants of a Weltwirtschaft

What is this monster of history, this world-economy? In Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Vol. III: The Perspective of the World, Fernand Braudel provides a typology of world-economies. He has great sympathy for Wallerstein’s conception of world-systems, and it is by way of summarizing it, that Braudel presents his notion. Ce n’est pas ide…
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