Taming Capitalism Before Its Triumph - Public Service, Distrust, and ''Projecting'' in Early Modern England

Early modern England had a distinctive preoccupation with the social responsibilities of private businesses. Koji Yamamoto explores for the first time how promises of public service in the economic sphere came to be abused, and how statesmen, playwrights, petitioners, and merchants responded to such perversions of promised public service.

List of contents

• Introduction: Projecting and Capitalism: A Reappraisal


• 1: Contexts and Contours


• 2: Broken Promises and the Rise of a Stereotype


• 3: Reformation and Distrust


• 4: Turning a Project into Reality


• 5: Memories, Propriety and Emulation


• 6: Consuming Projects


• Conclusion: Visible Hands Taming Capitalism


• Bibliography

About the author

Koji Yamamoto is a historian of early modern England. He has spent twelve happy years in the UK, taking master's and doctoral degrees in York, and subsequently working at universities in London (King's College London), St Andrews, Edinburgh, and Cambridge. He was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow between 2012 and 2014. From April 2016, he has been an Assistant Professor in Business History at the Faculty of Economics, the University of Tokyo.

Summary

Early modern England had a distinctive preoccupation with the social responsibilities of private businesses. Koji Yamamoto explores for the first time how promises of public service in the economic sphere came to be abused, and how statesmen, playwrights, petitioners, and merchants responded to such perversions of promised public service.

Additional text

Koji Yamamoto's much-awaited book addresses how the impact of economic change upon society can be accommodated. It is a highly challenging work in both senses of the word, taking aim at several established lines of argument by bringing economic, social, political, and cultural approaches together into a wider synthesis. ... it deserves to find a very wide readership.

Product details

• Authors: Koji Yamamoto, Koji (Assistant Professor in Business Hi Yamamoto, Koji (Assistant Professor in Business History Yamamoto, Yamamoto Koji
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2021
• EAN: 9780192848338
• ISBN: 978-0-19-284833-8
• No. of pages: 360
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; England, European History, HISTORY / Civilization, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Middle Ages (449-1066), Economic history, British & Irish history, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, C 1600 To C 1700, HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance