Peerless examination of the rise of social movements against the global capitalist system. von Arrighi, Giovanni

In the late eighteenth century, the political economist Adam Smith predicted an eventual equalization of power between the conquering West and the conquered non-West. Demonstrating Smith's continued relevance to understanding China's...

The Long Twentieth Century traces the epochal shifts in the relationship between capital accumulation and state formation over a 700-year period. Borrowing from Braudel, Arrighi argues that the history of capitalism has unfolded as a...

In "The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power, and the Origins of Our Times", untersucht der Soziologe Giovanni Arrighi die historische Entwicklung des globalen Kapitalismus und dessen Auswirkungen auf die Weltwirtschaft und politische...