Money and finance have been among the most potent tools of colonial power. This study investigates the Japanese experiment with financial imperialism--or "yen diplomacy"--At several key moments between the acquisition of Taiwan in 1895 and the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War i…
The second half of the nineteenth century is correctly known to have culminated in the emergence of the gold standard as the first truly international monetary regime. The processes leading up to this remarkable feat are, however, far less documented or understood. Economic hist…
Michael Schiltz analyses the efforts by nineteenth century banking to mitigate the effects of the depreciation of silver. He shows that strategies for hedging exchange rate risk were created earlier than traditionally thought, and explores the relationship between Great-Britain …
Emergence and Embodiment: New Essays on Second-Order Systems Theory
by Luhmann, Niklas, Varela, Francisco J., Clarke, Bruce, Brigham, Linda, Hansen, Mark B. N., Landgraf, Edgar, Livingston, Ira, Protevi, John, Schiltz, Michael, Thompson, Evan, Wolfe, Cary
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Emerging in the 1940s, the first cybernetics-the study of communication and control systems-was mainstreamed under the names artificial intelligence and computer science and taken up by the social sciences, the humanities, and the creative arts. In Emergence and Embodiment, Bruc…