Since its emergence at the end of the seventeenth century, industrial capitalism as a specific form of social organisation has set recurrent challenges to its own persistence, and until today, it has proved to be successful to develop new ways of accumulation based on its capaci…
This book, based upon the correspondence of William Nelson Lovatt, Korea's first commissioner of customs in Pusan, looks at the informal imperialism exercised by China over Korea in the 1880s, as China's increasing interventionism affected Lovatt's hiring, his experiences in Kor…
"This book answers the need for a contextual, long-term and interpretative analysis of risk from original sources. Risk has historically been a way of imagining what could happen in the future based on expert theories and predictions. This book explores this notion of 'managing …
Der Niedergang des Westens wird seit langem vorausgesagt. Doch heute sind die Symptome dieses Niedergangs nicht mehr zu übersehen: nachlassendes Wachstum, explodierende Staatsschulden, zunehmende Ungleichheit, alternde Bevölkerungen, auseinanderbrechende Sozialgefüge. Aber was g…
An esteemed economist warns that Western societies' economic expectations for the future are about to collide with reality. Drawing on historical parallels, King demonstrates the links between economic stagnation and political and social upheaval, asking whether the West has the…
