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L'émergence du capitalisme au prisme de l'histoire globale

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This article examines the question of the nature and concrete beginnings of capitalism. The essential core of agricultural, craft, commercial and military technologies which make-up the content for its European emergence derive from Asia, and were sometimes linked to market economies. Does this mean that capital was therefore at work, elsewhere than in Europe ? Wallerstein links capitalism and the modern world-system. Frank and Gills postulate capitalism's plurimillenial existence, whereas for Braudel, going beyond Marx and Weber, it does not really affirm itself before high-seas trading achieved its position of monopoly and domination over state authorities. In order to focus the debate on the places and epochs of the birth of capitalism, this paper proposes to distinguish "active merchant capital", market economies and capitalism. It thus leads to a more complex model, based on the interaction between merchant logic and state logic, which eventually leads, in line with the apporoach of Arrighi and Mielants, from the diffuse capitalism of the merchants to the modern teritorialized and concentrated capitalism.
Cet article passe en revue les analyses classiques des origines du capitalisme liées à la discipline de l'histoire globale (Wallerstein, Frank et Gills, Braudel). Se basant sur une distinction entre "capital marchand", économie de marché et capitalisme, il étudie ensuite comment, dans la lignée des travaux d'Arrighi et Mielants, il a été possible de passer d'un capitalisme diffus à un capitalisme territorialisé et concentré.
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hal-00953407 , version 1 (28-02-2014)

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Philippe Norel. L'émergence du capitalisme au prisme de l'histoire globale. Actuel Marx, 2013, 53, pp.63-75. ⟨hal-00953407⟩

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