In The Undevelopment of Capitalism, Emigh argues that the expansion of the Florentine economic market in the fifteenth century helped to undo the development of markets of other economies - especially the rural economy of Tuscany. As this highly developed urban market penetrated rural regions, it actually erased rural market institutions that rural inhabitants had used to organize agricultural production and family life. Thus, an advanced economy at the time of the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance "undeveloped" over time. The economic development of this region in Italy was delayed as...
In The Undevelopment of Capitalism, Emigh argues that the expansion of the Florentine economic market in the fifteenth century helped to undo the deve...
Argues that the expansion of the Florentine economic market in the fifteenth century helped to undo the development of markets of other economiesoespecially the rural economy of Tuscany. The author shows how sectoral relations are crucial to transitions to capitalism and how capitalist development can also contract markets.
Argues that the expansion of the Florentine economic market in the fifteenth century helped to undo the development of markets of other economiesoespe...