Renowned political economist Samir Amin, engaged in a unique lifelong effort both to narrate and affect the human condition on a global scale, brings his analysis up to the present--the world of 2013. The key events of our times--financial crisis, the emerging nations, globalization, financialization, political Islam, Euro-zone implosion--are ......
The History of Too Much and the End of Economic Primacy
Between March 2009 and February 2025, the S&P 500 index rose by more than 700%. In the same period, gold tripled in value, the average American home doubled in price, and cryptocurrencies crashed into existence and then soared to a total valuation of $3 trillion. But this vast accumulation of wealth is not a sign of economic health. The world is ......
The Impact and Legacy of Eric Williams's Trailblazing Work
Reexamining a seminal work on British capitalism and Caribbean slavery and its continuing reverberations in the twenty-first century Eric Williams's Capitalism and Slavery (1944), with its insightful and provocative theses about the relationship between Caribbean slavery and the growth of the British economy and the Industrial Revolution, has ......
The Impact and Legacy of Eric Williams's Trailblazing Work
Reexamining a seminal work on British capitalism and Caribbean slavery and its continuing reverberations in the twenty-first century Eric Williams's Capitalism and Slavery (1944), with its insightful and provocative theses about the relationship between Caribbean slavery and the growth of the British economy and the Industrial Revolution, has ......
During the first quarter-century after its founding, the United States was swept by a wave of land speculation so unprecedented in intensity and scale that contemporaries and historians alike have dubbed it a "mania." In Speculation Nation, Michael A. Blaakman uncovers the revolutionary origins of this real-estate bonanza-a story of ambition, ......
Moving Infrastructure from a Resource-Gap to a Priority-Based Approach
This report introduces the first global, geolocated database of physical infrastructure assets and a framework to guide investment priorities. Comparing social returns with borrowing costs reveals widespread underinvestment across energy, transport, and digital sectors, with especially high returns to transport in developing countries.
Chaos to Clarity: Making Sense of Complex Business Transformation is an essential guide for leaders who must navigate the intersection of strategy, people, process, and technology change. Written in clear, executive-level language, this book demystifies complex business transformation as a holistic reinvention of how an organization creates ......
Paul M. Sweezy was one of the greatest Marxist political economists of the twentieth century. Born in 1910, his upbringing during the Depression deepened his understanding of capitalism, especially its tendency toward stagnation--the inability of capitalist economies to generate sufficient capital investment to make use of abundant resources, much ......
Paul M. Sweezy was one of the greatest Marxist political economists of the twentieth century. Born in 1910, his upbringing during the Depression deepened his understanding of capitalism, especially its tendency toward stagnation--the inability of capitalist economies to generate sufficient capital investment to make use of abundant resources, much ......
