The Academy of Fisticuffs [electronic resource] : political economy and commercial society in Enlightenment Italy / Sophus A. Reinert.

The terms "capitalism" and "socialism" continue to haunt our political and economic imaginations, but we rarely consider their interconnected early history. Even the eighteenth century had its "socialists," but unlike those of the nineteenth, they paradoxically sought to make the world safe for "cap...

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