The on the capitalist origins of silver mining, A.D. 1150-1450 Graulau, Jeannette creator enk New Haven Yale University Press 2019 eng 373 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Silver mining was a capitalist business long before the supposed origin of modern capitalism. Hundreds of years before a sixteenth-century crisis in European agriculture led to the origins of capital, investment, and finance, the silver mining industry exhibited many of the features of modern capitalism. Silver mines were large-scale businesses that demanded large investments and steady cash flow, achieved by spreading that risk through fungible shares and creating legal structures to protect entrepreneurs from financial disaster. Jeannette Graulau argues that mining preceded agriculture as the first true capitalist enterprise of the modern world. 1.Mining the Underground Wealth of Nations: A Word on Theory and History -- 2. World Mining Regions before the Rise of Modern Capitalism -- 3. Digging the Underground Wealth of Europe -- 4. Capitalist Profits of Mining Corporations -- 5. A 'Lengthy Digression': Why Mining Lagged Elsewhere -- 6. Capitalist Mining in West European Development -- Appendix A. German Loanwords in Mining Statutes -- Appendix B. Carbon Yield and Charcoal Characteristics. Jeannette Graulau. Minas y recursos minerales Historia Europa Capitalismo Historia Europa Plusvalía HC 125 G774u 2019 9780300218220 050520 20231020120433.0 spa