具體描述
A leading economic historian traces the evolution of American capitalism from the colonial era to the present—and argues that we’ve reached a turning point that will define the era ahead.
“The best one-volume history of American capitalism . . . It is impossible to understand the United States without understanding its economic history. This book, from one of the nation’s foremost historians of capitalism, brings that important and endlessly fascinating story to life.”—Sven Beckert, author of Empire of Cotton
Today, in the midst of a new economic crisis and severe political discord, the nature of capitalism in United States is at a crossroads. Since the market crash and Great Recession of 2008, historian Jonathan Levy has been teaching a course to help his students understand everything that had happened to reach that disaster and the current state of the economy, but in doing so he discovered something more fundamental about American history. Now, in an ambitious single-volume history of the United States, he reveals how, from the beginning of U.S. history to the present, capitalism in America has evolved through four distinct ages and how the country’s economic evolution is inseparable from the nature of American life itself.
The Age of Commerce spans the colonial era through the outbreak of the Civil War, a period of history in which economic growth and output largely depended on enslaved labor and was limited by what could be drawn from the land and where it could be traded. The Age of Capital traces the impact of the first major leap in economic development following the Civil War: the industrial revolution, when capitalists set capital down in factories to produce commercial goods, fueled by labor moving into cities. But investments in the new industrial economy led to great volatility, most dramatically with the onset of the Great Depression in 1929. The Depression immediately sparked the Age of Control, when the government took on a more active role in the economy, first trying to jump-start it and then funding military production during World War II. Skepticism of government intervention in the Cold War combined with recession and stagflation in the 1970s led to a crisis of industrial capitalism and the withdrawal of political will for regulation. In the Age of Chaos that followed, the combination of deregulation and the growth of the finance industry created a booming economy for some but also striking inequalities and a lack of oversight that led directly to the crash of 2008.
In Ages of American Capitalism, Jonathan Levy proves that, contrary to political dogma, capitalism in the United States has never been just one thing. Instead, it has morphed throughout the country’s history—and it’s likely changing again right now.
作者簡介
Jonathan Levy is a professor in the Department of History and the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. His first book, Freaks of Fortune: The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in America, won the Organization of American Historians’ Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Ellis W. Hawley Prize, and Avery O. Craven Award, as well as the American Society for Legal History’s William Nelson Cromwell Book Prize. He lives in Chicago, Illinois.
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這本書對我理解現代社會運作邏輯起到瞭極大的啓發作用。它成功地將長達數百年的經濟演變串聯成一個有機的整體，揭示瞭資本積纍和權力分配的周期性規律。與我過去讀過的某些側重於純粹宏觀數據的經濟史著作不同，這部作品極為注重“人”在曆史中的能動性。無論是那些白手起傢的實業傢，還是緻力於規範市場秩序的政治傢，他們的決策和道德睏境構成瞭曆史的血肉。尤其是在討論特定曆史轉摺點時，作者對替代性曆史路徑的潛在可能性的探討，引人深思。讀完全書後，我感覺對當前全球經濟體係的根源性問題有瞭更清晰的認識，不再滿足於錶麵的解釋，而是開始探究其深層的結構性成因。
评分閱讀過程更像是一次對美國精神內核的深度探尋。它不僅僅是一本關於經濟史的書，更是一部關於美國人“夢想與現實”的編年史。書中的篇章結構設計得頗具匠心，每一部分都像是一個獨立的短篇故事，但又緊密相連，共同構築起宏大的敘事主題。我尤其對書中對創新與破壞性技術如何重塑市場格局的論述深感興趣。那種近乎野蠻生長的力量，既帶來瞭前所未有的財富積纍，同時也製造瞭難以調和的社會鴻溝。作者沒有采取簡單的褒貶態度，而是以一種近乎冷靜的史學傢視角，展示瞭這種內在的張力。讀到某些段落時，我甚至能感受到那種時代特有的躁動與不安，仿佛能聞到蒸汽機燃燒的煤灰味和華爾街午後緊張的空氣。此書的價值，在於它幫助讀者跳齣日常瑣碎的經濟新聞，用更具曆史深度的眼光去審視當前的經濟現象。
评分老實說，這本書的體量和內容的密度初看之下可能會讓人望而卻步，但一旦沉浸其中，就會被作者那近乎全知全能的敘事視角所摺服。它仿佛是一部交響樂，不同的經濟主題作為樂章，時而高亢激昂，時而低沉內省。我特彆欣賞作者對金融工具創新如何改變社會財富結構這一問題的處理。從早期的商業信用票據到後來的復雜衍生品，每一種工具的齣現都伴隨著對現有秩序的顛覆。書中對這些工具背後的哲學基礎和實際社會後果的分析，既嚴謹又富有洞察力。這本書的敘事方式有一種獨特的曆史重量感，它讓你在閱讀時不斷地停下來，思考當下的決策將在未來被如何評判。這是一部值得反復研讀的鴻篇巨著，其價值會隨著時間推移愈發凸顯。
评分這本厚重的曆史著作，在我讀完後留下瞭深刻的印象。作者的敘事功力非凡，將復雜紛繁的經濟變遷編織成一幅引人入勝的畫捲。從早期美國經濟的萌芽，到工業化浪潮的洶湧澎湃，再到金融資本的崛起與擴張，每一個階段的更迭都伴隨著激烈的社會衝突與觀念的碰撞。我特彆欣賞作者在描繪曆史細節時的嚴謹態度，那些關於特定時期商業實踐、勞資關係的生動案例，仿佛將我帶迴瞭那個特定的年代。盡管涉及大量經濟學理論和數據分析，但作者的筆觸始終保持著一種流暢的敘事節奏，使得即便是初涉此領域的讀者也能緊隨其後，理解資本主義在美國這片土地上是如何一步步塑造其社會結構與國民性格的。書中對不同曆史時期政策製定的背景、參與者的動機的剖析，尤為精妙，讓人不禁反思，我們今天所處的經濟環境，究竟是曆史的必然，還是無數次選擇的結果。
评分我必須承認，這本書的閱讀體驗是極具挑戰性的，但絕對物有所值。它要求讀者具備一定的耐心和專注力，因為作者深入挖掘的層次非常深，絲毫不迴避那些令人不適的經濟衰退與社會不公的黑暗麵。書中對不同意識形態之間拉鋸戰的描繪尤其精彩，無論是自由放任主義者還是社會改良派，他們對“美國夢”的定義和實現路徑的理解存在著根本性的分歧，而這些分歧正是驅動曆史前進的根本動力。我尤其被那些被曆史進程無情拋棄的群體和産業所占據的章節所觸動，他們的故事是理解經濟效率背後沉重代價的關鍵。這本書的語言風格比較偏嚮學術，但通過大量的曆史檔案和人物引述，有效地軟化瞭理論的生硬感，使得嚴肅的主題讀起來也充滿瞭畫麵感和戲劇性。
评分In Levy’s telling, each age of American capitalism represents a fresh effort to refashion the relationship between government and markets in response to major disruptions to the old economic order. Levy is an unabashed Keynesian, he describe the crucial importance of investment and the necessary role of government in directing and sustaining it.
评分In Levy’s telling, each age of American capitalism represents a fresh effort to refashion the relationship between government and markets in response to major disruptions to the old economic order. Levy is an unabashed Keynesian, he describe the crucial importance of investment and the necessary role of government in directing and sustaining it.
评分In Levy’s telling, each age of American capitalism represents a fresh effort to refashion the relationship between government and markets in response to major disruptions to the old economic order. Levy is an unabashed Keynesian, he describe the crucial importance of investment and the necessary role of government in directing and sustaining it.
评分In Levy’s telling, each age of American capitalism represents a fresh effort to refashion the relationship between government and markets in response to major disruptions to the old economic order. Levy is an unabashed Keynesian, he describe the crucial importance of investment and the necessary role of government in directing and sustaining it.
评分In Levy’s telling, each age of American capitalism represents a fresh effort to refashion the relationship between government and markets in response to major disruptions to the old economic order. Levy is an unabashed Keynesian, he describe the crucial importance of investment and the necessary role of government in directing and sustaining it.
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