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- ISBN 9780313281495
- Publication Date: 30 Aug 1993
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This study examines the development of capitalism in Israel. Taking a different view from the traditional modernization perspective, Ben-Porat argues that since 1948--when Israel became a state--the process of forming a capitalist society has underlain all other major processes. To explain capitalism in Israel, a perspective is needed that treats the problems of implanting capitalism in post-colonial states. Problems include the undeveloped class structure; the inability of the bourgeoisie to fulfill its capitalist role; the continuing post-colonial dependency on state support; and, most importantly, the central role of the state in enhancing, but also regulating, capitalism.
AMIR BEN-PORAT is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Behavioral Sciences at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He is the author of Divided We Stand (Greenwood, 1989) and Between Class and Nation (Greenwood, 1986).
