The crisis of theory tells the story of the political and intellectual adventures of E. P. Thompson, one of Britain's foremost twentieth-century thinkers. Drawing on extraordinary new unpublished documents, Scott Hamilton shows that all of Thompson's work, from his acclaimed his…
The worldwide spread of neoliberalism has transformed economies, polities, and societies everywhere. In conventional accounts, American and Western European economists, such as Milton Friedman and Friedrich von Hayek, sold neoliberalism by popularizing their free-market ideas an…
De son premier article, publié dans la revue politico-littéraire d'Henri Barbusse, à ses ultimes déclarations sur la signification de 1984, les textes de George Orwell ici réunis sont tous inédits en français. Ils avaient été écartés de l'édition de ses Essais, articles et lettr…
The revolutionary movements of 1848 viewed the political cataclysm of continental Europe as an explosion of liberty, a new age of freedom and equality. This collection focuses on the relationship between democratic and socialist currents in 1848, seeking to reassess the relevanc…
"Most studies of the Soviet press approach its history in terms of propaganda or ideology. Thomas C. Wolfe's focus, by contrast, is on the effort to imagine a different kind of person and polity. Framing his discussion in terms of Foucault's concept of governmentality, he explor…
The forces that shape our history are always contentious, yet our fascination with what drives the actions of the human race is inexhaustible. In 'Guns, Germs, and Steel', Jared Diamond proposed one set of forces; Willie Thompson, in 'Work, Sex, and Power', suggests a far more r…
This highly topical work presents a new theory on the characteristics of entrepreneurial knowledge. It explores the recent shift among professional economists and scholars in their evaluation of this debate.
