The industrial revolution and the creation of the modern
(national) state are two of the most important historical processes
to have occurred in Europe during the 19th century. The state and
other bodies of governance play an important role in the
development of capitalist market societies since the 18th century.
But modern market economies are to a large degree a product of the
interplay between market and governance. Yet we are often told a
strikingly different tale about the modern economy, at least how it
ought to work and operate - as far as possible without public
interference. Even more frequently we have been taught that the
modern capitalist market economy is a product of an industrial
revolution, originating with the UK in the middle of the 18th
century propelled by laissez faire and the triumph of free markets
which gradually liberated themselves from the grip of an old
dirigiste state.
This book argues that in order to get a better understanding of
this period and the rise of modern industrial capitalism it is
necessary to link the industrial revolution in its various forms to
a political and institutional context of state-making and the
creation of modern national states. Professor Magnusson
demonstrates that a historical narrative which does not acknowledge
the role of the state and public governance for the establishment
of the modern capitalist market economy is fundamentally
flawed.
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