A Notable Administration
English State Formation and the Rise of Capitalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2212291 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Derek Sayer (0009-0000-8056-6810, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 97 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1382-1415 |
| Publication date | 1992-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9602 • E-ISSN: 1537-5390 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/229905 |
| OpenAlex | W1987669016 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 17 |
England is, according to both Marx and Weber, the classic ground of modern rational capitalism. Yet England's political history and institutions strikingly deviate from what Weberian or Marxist ideal-types of capitalist development might lead us to expect. This article argues that these deviations are important in explaining why England became the home of capitalism in the first place. Particular stress is put upon the earliness of England's formation as a national state, or the continuites of its major legal and political institutions, and what are often seen as their amateurish "irrationalities" in molding, over the very longue durée, a civil society in which capitalist economy was possible. If so, the pertinence of Marxist and Weberian ideal-types to a historical sociology of capitalism, whether in England or elsewhere, needs very seriously to be reconsidered
Capitalism · Capitalist state · Economics · Ideal (ethics) · Marxist philosophy · Neoclassical economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science) · Australian History and Society · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US
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| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,47 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 2026 (35) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |