Means and Ends - The Idea of Capital in the West, 1500-1970 (Electronic book text)

Capital dominated the imagination of Western society in the age of greatest economic development, from the Industrial Revolution to the 1970s. Means and Ends provides for the first time a comprehensive interpretation of the rise, evolution and crisis of this concept within and outside political economy from the sixteenth century to the modern day. Based on a wealth of primary sources, it offers an exciting study of intellectual and cultural history.