This book challenges the foregoing consensus by showing that the French economy performed poorly relative to its rivals because of non-capitalist social relations. Specifically, peasants and artisans controlled the lands and workshops in autonomous communities and did not have to improve labor productivity to survive.
Political Scientist Xavier Lafrance provides a pathbreaking account of the emergence of capitalism in France.
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