If you care, among major influences on my political/economic/historical thought are both Fernand Braudel and Manuel de Landa. Braudel, as I have posted at various times , explained to me the difference between The Market Economy and Capitalism , and he also demonstrated--through a mass of historical evidence impossible to ignore or refute--that government regulation of trade within the market economy has been a feature of such economies in Europe and America as long as there have been markets. [Aside: note that I said government regulation, not State regulation; Braudel makes the point repeatedly that the locus of control for economic regulation was traditionally the city, not the State. Great Britain's Navigation Acts would seem to be an exception to this, until you realize that in the 18th Century GB was not so much a nation-state, but a single ubran entity (London) presiding over an imperial hinterland.] Then I mix Braudel with de Landa, whose A Thousand Years of Non-Linear...