1  Cover

      2  Title Page

      3  Copyright

      4  Introduction

      5  PART 1: The Conditions in Which Liberalism and Capitalism Appeared 1 Political and Legal Conditions 1.1. Liberalism and democracy: new eldorados of political thought and political life 1.2. The right of ownership as a necessary condition for savings and capital formation 1.3. The advent of the bourgeoisie 1.4. The nascent authority of state bureaucracy 2 Economic and Sociological Conditions 2.1. Trade and industry: competitors of agriculture and the craft industry 2.2. The dangers of industrialization 2.3. The decisive influence of the Protestant religion on economic rationalization 2.4. The role of money and financial markets

      6  PART 2: The Evolution of Liberalism and Capitalism 3 The Birth of a New Capitalism in a New World: Financial Capitalism 3.1. The emergence and development of financial capitalism 3.2. Changes in corporate governance 3.3. New economic policies 3.4. From the perfection of theoretical capitalism to the crises of real capitalism 3.5. Recurrent causes of the crises of capitalism 3.6. Some examples of crises of capitalism 4 Towards 21st Century Capitalism 4.1. A responsible and proactive economic policy 4.2. Finance that respects the principles of capitalism 4.3. Renewed corporate governance

      7  Conclusion

      8  References

      9  Index

      10  End User License Agreement

      1  Cover

      2  Table of Contents

      3  Title Page

      4  Copyright

      5  Introduction

      6  Begin Reading

      7  Conclusion

      8  References

      9  Index

      10  Other titles from iSTE in Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Management

      11  End User License Agreement

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