title: Understanding Capitalism: Competition, Command, and Change
author: Samuel Bowles
description: <br>"A good contested exchange alternative to a traditional textbook. Ideal for use in an economics class with an interdisciplinary focus." -- Andrew Farrant, <em>Dickinson College</em>
zlib_text: Barry Hinde 5 and Paul Q. Hi~st 
  
  Pre-capitalist modes 
  of production 
  Barry Hindess 
  Department of Sociology 
  University of Liverpool 
  Paul Q. Hirst 
  Department of Politics and Sociology 
  Birkbeck College. University of London 
  Routledge & Kegan Pau I 
  London, Boston and Henley 
  
  First published in 1975 
  by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd 
  39 Store Street 
  London WCIE 7DD, 
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  Oxon RG91EN and 
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  Boston, Mass. 02108, USA 
  Reprinted and first published 
  as a paperback in 1977 
  Reprinted in 1979 
  Set in 10 pt Times on 12 pt body 
  and printed in Great Britain by 
  Redwood Burn Limited 
  Trowbridge and Esher 
  IS> Barry Hindess, Paul Q. Hirst 1975 
  No part of this book may be reproduced in 
  any form without permission from the 
  publisher, except for the quotation of brief 
  passages in criticism 
  ISBN 0 7100 8168 5 (C) 
  ISBN 0 7100 8169 3 (P) 
  
  Contents 
  Introduction 
  1 Theoretical abstraction and concrete analysis 
  1 
  2 Can there be a gener