Not a book with an argument but a book of laws: some ninety statutes, codes, decrees and ministerial orders, given in extract and arranged under six headings - general enactments, the child within the family, the protection of childhood, the right to education and upbringing, social security, and labour privileges for adolescents.It was compiled by two jurists of the Soviet academy, Professor V. N. Tolkunova taking the first and last sections and E. G. Azarova those between, and it...

A close study of how the Soviet state built the machinery to run its factories, from the October Revolution to the abolition of the Supreme Economic Council in January 1932.It follows the offices, statutes and reorganisations: the Supreme Economic Council and its chief committees, the trusts, the syndicates, the credit reform, and the shift from economic councils to branch People's Commissariats. It is drawn from documents in the Central State Archive of the USSR National Economy a...

A collective volume by the two elite research institutes of the late Soviet state - the Institute of World Economy and International Relations and the Institute of the United States and Canada - on where capitalism stood as the century closed.Fifteen chapters and some 171,000 words, described on the jacket as the work of well-known Soviet economists, philosophers, historians, sociologists and journalists. The footnotes identify the milieu precisely even though no contributor list s...

The emerging environmental justice movement has created greater awareness among scholars that communities from all over the world suffer from similar environmental inequalities. This volume takes up the challenge of linking the focussed campaigns and insights from African American campaigns for environmental justice with the perspectives of this global group of environmentally marginalized groups. The editorial team has drawn on Washington's work, on Paul Rosier's study of Native American ...

“I defy anybody—Keynesian, Hayekian, or uncommitted—to read [Wapshott’s] work and not learn something new.”—John Cassidy, The New YorkerAs the stock market crash of 1929 plunged the world into turmoil, two men emerged with competing claims on how to restore balance to economies gone awry. John Maynard Keynes, the mercurial Cambridge economist, believed that government had a duty to spend when others would not. He met his opposite in a little-known Austrian economics profes...

A Financial Times Book of the Year'Milanovic combines his deep knowledge of political economy and philosophy and his mastery of statistics to explain the rise of Asia and the corresponding decline of the West' James K. GalbraithA leading economist economist guides us through the ruins of the current world order: where do we go next?Global neoliberalism is on its last legs, while a new international economic...

The era of hyperglobalization once hailed as the 'end of history' was characterised by boundless capitalist expansion. The neoliberal revolution gave rise to a politics of scale aimed at the centralization and unification of states and state systems: the replacement of national with global governance or, in Europe, of the nation-state with a supranational superstate, the European Union.The 'New World Order' proclaimed by the United States in the wake of the Soviet collapse proved t...

Can open society survive? Is Europe disintegrating? How to overcome the economic crisis? Will Europeans feel secure again? Counter Revolution is a bold attempt to make sense of the extraordinary events taking place in Europe today. It examines the counter-revolution developing in Europe, exploring its roots and implications. The book takes the form of a series of heartfelt letters to the late European guru Ralf Dahrendorf. Several months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Dahrend...

In Does Capitalism Have a Future?, a global quintet of distinguished scholars cut their way through to the question of whether our capitalist system can survive in the medium run. Despite the current gloom, conventional wisdom still assumes that there is no real alternative to capitalism. The authors argue that this generalization is a mistaken outgrowth of the optimistic nineteenth-century claim that human history ascends through stages to an enlightened equilibrium of liberal ca...

With The Making of an Atlantic Ruling Class, Kees van der Pijl put class formation at the heart of our understanding of world politics and the global economy. This landmark study dissects one of the most decisive phenomena of the twentieth century-the rise of an Atlantic ruling class of multinational banks and corporations. A new preface by the author evaluates the book's significance in the light of recent political and economic developments.

**A pre-eminent scholar challenges the notion of inevitable American decline, arguing that the nation can still lead in a rapidly shifting world order“Nye marshals his wide grasp of history, politics, and economics to produce a compelling book.” —The Economist**In this pioneering work, Joseph S. Nye, Jr., reckons with the enduring claim that American decline is inevitable. He argues that the United States will remain the dominant world power and shows that narrativ...

The Clash of Economic Ideas interweaves the economic history of the last hundred years with the history of economic doctrines to understand how contrasting economic ideas have originated and developed over time to take their present forms. It traces the connections running from historical events to debates among economists, and from the ideas of academic writers to major experiments in economic policy. The treatment offers fresh perspectives on laissez faire, socialism and fascism; the Roa...