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Common fields are fenced; English peasants are dispossessed of customary use-rights. Land becomes a tradable asset and a wage-labour force is freed for the towns. Key sections include: Industrial Capitalism origins of the modern economy; Pre-conditions of an industrial order; The Wealth of Nations; The factory — separation of worker and tool; Banking, credit, and the central authority; The Robber Barons; The critique — Marx and after; The corporation — invention of the legal person; Antitrust — the state pushes back; The welfare state — capitalism, regulated.
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