Information about the author

James Fulcher read history at Cambridge, took a sociology master's at the London School of Economics, and wrote his PhD at the University of Leicester. His career was spent in the sociology department at the University of Leicester, and with John Scott, he produced a number of editions of Sociology, published by Oxford, which has been judged 'the best of the all-encompassing texts'. His main research interest has been in the history of industrial relations in Sweden and his main teaching interest in the development of Japanese society.

Blurb

In this very short introduction, James Fulcher considers what capitalism is, the forms it can take around the world, and its history of crises and long-term development. In this new edition, he discusses the fundamental impact of the global financial crises of 2007-8 and what it has.