The phrase "age of capital" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a historical period characterized by the dominance of capital and capitalist economic systems.
Example: "The age of capital has significantly shaped modern economies and social structures."
Alternatives: "era of capital" or "period of capitalism".
That Marxist tag threatened to tarnish his reputation, when his lucid and scholarly books on what he called the long 19th century, from 1789 to 1914 ("The Age of Revolution", "The Age of Capital", "The Age of Empire"), on nationalism and on labour movements deserved, and won, an audience well beyond leftist circles and academe.Defiant, Mr Hobsbawm championed Marx to the last.
His trilogy charting the rise of capitalism - The Age of Revolution (1962), The Age of Capital ('75) and The Age of Empire ('87) - became a defining work of his chosen period, the "long 19th century", from 1789 to 1914.
A sequel, in 1975, "The Age of Capital, 1848-1875," showed breathtaking range in encompassing the creation of a world economy.
Although The Age of Revolution started out as a single book, by the time he had finished The Age of Capital in 1975 he realised he was in fact in the middle of a much larger project.
"I love to read Eric Hobsbawm," the Harvard historian David Landes wrote in a critical but appreciative review of "Age of Capital" in the T.L.S .He knows so much; he reads everything; he translates German poetry into English rhyme".
For many, perhaps most, readers, the standout will be the sweeping four-part overview of European history from the French Revolution to the Soviet collapse that Hobsbawm launched with "Age of Revolution, 1789-1848" (1962), and that proceeded through "Age of Capital, 1848-1875" (1975), "Age of Empire, 1875-1914" (1987), and "Age of Extremes, 1914-1991" (1994).
Foreign Gods Inc. is a thrilling account of divinity in the age of global capital.
Nancy Folbre suggests that the golden age of human capital – roughly speaking, the era in which the economy strongly demanded the kinds of skills we teach in liberal-arts colleges and universities – is already behind us.
The government would love to direct jobs and investment to the northern cities, but regional planning is ever harder in an age of footloose capital, when a business is as likely to relocate to Lille as to Liverpool.
Higher taxes on the rich may be a logical response to rising income inequality, but actually levying those taxes is getting harder in an age of global capital flows.
Then, soon after the emergence of storefront nickelodeons, in 1905, they threw in their lot with a new, primitive art form that many regarded as a passing fad. Louis B. Mayer, Samuel Goldwyn, Adolph Zukor, Carl Laemmle, Jesse Lasky, and the four Warner brothers built their enterprises with a speed that even now, in the age of venture capital and mobile-app entrepreneurs, seems remarkable.
