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Michael Perelman
the invention of capitalism
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THE INVENTION OF CAPITALISM
Classical Political Economy and the
Secret History of Primitive Accumulation
michael perelman
Duke University Press • Durham & London 2000
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Contents
Introduction: Dark Designs 1
1 The Enduring Importance of Primitive Accumulation 13
2 The Theory of Primitive Accumulation 25
3 Primitive Accumulation and the Game Laws 38
4 The Social Division of Labor and Household Production 59
5 Elaborating the Model of Primitive Accumulation 92
6 The Dawn of Political Economy 124
7 Sir James Steuart’s Secret History of Primitive Accumulation 139
8 Adam Smith’s Charming Obfuscation of Class 171
9 The Revisionist History of Professor Adam Smith 196
10 Adam Smith and the Ideological Role of the Colonies 229
11 Benjamin Franklin and the Smithian Ideology of Slavery and Wage
Labor 254
12 The Classics as Cossacks: Classical Political Economy versus the
Working Class 280
13 The Counterattack 321
14 Notes on Development 352
Conclusion 369
References 371
Index 407
Introduction: Dark Designs
In order to develop the laws of bourgeois economy . . . it is not necessary to write
the real history of the relations of production. But the correct observation and
deduction of these laws . . . always leads to primary equations . . . which point
toward a past lying behind the system. These indications . . . then offer the key to
understanding the past—a work in its own right.—Karl Marx, Grundrisse
Preface
In the development of a theory, the invisible of a visible field is not generally
anything whatever outside and foreign to the visible defined by that fi