The World Today (1974) examines the world of the late twentieth century and its roots – the disintegration of the old world is analysed in the expansion and subsequent decline of nineteenth-century imperialism, and the attempts by the League of Nations and United Nations to bring about a new order on international cooperation.
World War I left in its wake an unparalleled amount of international debt. Originally published in 1927, this book discusses the amount and origin of each of the debts; the nature of the various negotiated settlements and the changes in national policies which occurred.
The World’s Constitution: Spheres of Liberty in the Future Global Order offers a vision of future world order that could work in a global space while shifting the balance of power from state back to society. This book shares insights that cut across a range of topics from social welfare to channels of representation.
The World’s Constitution: Spheres of Liberty in the Future Global Order offers a vision of future world order that could work in a global space while shifting the balance of power from state back to society. This book shares insights that cut across a range of topics from social welfare to channels of representation.
This book draws together an international team of contributors, including Douglass North, Harold Demsetz and Michael Piore to assess the different types of capitalism that operate in the world today.
Analyses how world views of uncertainty and certainty have alternated and conflicted from the Renaissance to the modern day. The author argues that a pragmatic middle path that accepts unpredictability but deals with it through science and trust will help us successfully manage unpredictable events and deal with crises together.
Worlds of Wartime: The First World War and the Reconstruction of Modern Politics provides a new intellectual history of the many and varied ideas about politics and economics that were made, and remade, through wartime and revolution, by political and economic thinkers working across the globe, from the 1880s to the 1930s.