Maurice Dobb's Studies in the Development of Capitalism continues to be a starting point for discussion of European economic development. Dobb argues that the formative impact of feudal surplus extraction relations characterised by extra-economic compulsion by feudal lords determined a distinctive pattern of economic evolution.
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Robert Brenner Dobb on the Transition From Feudalism to Capitalism
Maurice Dobb's Studies in the Development of Capitalism continues to be a starting point for discussion of European economic development. Dobb argues that the formative impact of feudal surp…