Introduces a new theoretical construct, The Quantity Theory of Credit, discusses how paper money creation is the only thing keeping the global economy from collapse, and provides practical advice for the coming instability.
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"As Brazil, Russia, India, China, and the European Union now rise in global influence, twenty leading historians from four continents take a timely look backward and forward to discover patterns of eclipse in past empires that are already shaping a decline in U.S. global power"-…
"As Brazil, Russia, India, China, and the European Union now rise in global influence, twenty leading historians from four continents take a timely look backward and forward to discover patterns of eclipse in past empires that are already shaping a decline in U.S. global power"-…
"Anxieties about decline were a prominent feature of British public discourse in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. These anxieties were borne out repeatedly in books and periodicals, pamphlets and poems. Tracing the reciprocal development of Romantic-era Britain'…
"For some time now, union membership. has been steadily declining. After reaching a peak of 33 percent in the United States in 1953, unionization hit 10.7 percent in 2016, its lowest level in one hundred years, and it shows no sign of rising. In the UK, union membership is now h…
The shift from pro-fertility norms to individual-choice norms -- Religion matters -- The secularization debate -- Evolutionary modernization theory and secularization -- What's causing it? : the rise of individual-choice norms -- What's causing it? : insecurity -- Secularization…
Nel cuore dell'America ci sono città sull'orlo della dissoluzione. Assomigliano, sempre di più, a campagne post-urbane. Un nuovo paesaggio che nella cintura di ruggine - la cosiddetta Rustbelt, che si estende dal Midwest fino a parte del Nordest del paese - è diventato molto com…
Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Plates -- Glossary -- Introduction -- 1. The State of the Nation - Sparta in 478 BC -- 2. The First Cracks -- 3. The Misadventures of Pausanias -- 4. The Slide into War -- 5. The Archidamian War -- 6. Sphacteria and the Pea…
Declares "the American century", the name Henry Luce gave to an era of American prosperity beginning in 1941, dead, and collects essays explaining what the American century was and meant, and why many believe it has met a premature demise.