英国资本主义的发展是比较早的,在十九世纪中叶,它已是世界上最大的制造业和贸易的国家。现在,虽然由于种种原因,英国垄断资本在资本主义世界中的地位已下降,但仍不失为主要势力之一。在近年的经济著作中,研究英国垄断资本的书籍,还是不很多的。阿罗诺维奇所著的“英国垄断资本的研究”一书,正好弥补了这个缺陷。作者首先指出,由于资本家之间为了稚持和扩大自己的势力而展开的生产竞争,生产集中现象增长,随着生产集中而来的便是资本的集中化,这样便形成了垄断资本。英国现在的垄断企业如维克斯公司、帝国化学工业公司、帝国烟草公司和尤尼莱佛公司等,就是经由这 The development of British capitalism was earlier, and by the mid-nineteenth century it was already the largest manufacturing and trading nation in the world. Now, although the monopoly capital of Britain has fallen in the capitalist world for various reasons, it remains one of the major forces. In the recent economic writings, there are not many books on British monopoly capital. Aronowicz’s book, “The Study of Monopoly Capital in Britain,” fills this flaw. The author first points out that due to the production competition among capitalists for the purpose of child-holding and expanding their own power, the phenomenon of concentration of production increases and the concentration of capital comes from the concentration of production, thus forming a monopoly capital. Britain’s current monopolies such as Vickers, Imperial Chemical Industries, Imperial Tobacco and Unilever companies, etc., is through this