his monograph on the concept of capitalism is the intellectual core of a larger work entitled
Capitalism Its Origins and Evolution as Ta System of Governance due for publication November
2009. The purpose of this monograph is to put forth an original concept of ca- talism as a
system of governance including a theory of how it functions at any point in time and how it
evolves through time. In the larger book I present a theory of its origins and evolution and
support this theory with a set of country case studies that span both time and geography. It
was in fact my experience in studying these case studies that led me to the c- cept presented
here as well as to the theory of capitalism's origins and e- lution. In the larger book I
build on the present work identifying and expla- ing capitalism as a system of governance for
political entities such as - tion states. I then supplement these ideas with a description and
expla- tion of three generic economic strategies. Taken together my studies of economic
strategies and specific capitalist systems of governance are - tended to enhance and enrich
existing literature on varieties of capit- ism.
