This paper assesses claims that, prior to the 19th century, around 90% of the human
population lived in extreme poverty (defined as the inability to access essential goods), and …

Debates about the role and nature of the state are at the heart of modern politics. However,
the state itself remains notoriously difficult to define, and the term is subject to a range of …

Finance Capital Today is shortlisted for the The Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize
2017. Finance Capital Today presents a rich new analysis of the specific features of …

A few centuries ago, capitalism set in motion an explosion of economic productivity. Markets
and private property had existed for millennia, but what other key institutions fostered …

Understanding social media requires us to engage with the individual and collective
meanings that diverse stakeholders and participants give to platforms. It also requires us to …

These romanticized or racist views of China from some of the best minds in Enlightenment
Europe cannot be attributed solely to the lack of information about China at the time because …

Following the financial crisis and its aftermath, it is clear that the inherent contradictions of
capitalist accumulation have become even more intense and plunged the global economy …

186 Socialism and Democracy understanding the region's class dynamics. In the last two
decades, rapid transformation in the Gulf states (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi …

Does the present socio‐ecological impasse–captured in popular discussions of the 'end'of
cheap food and cheap oil–represent the latest in a long history of limits and crises that have …

This book argues that there is a new, Sinological form of orientalism at work in the world. It
has shifted from a logic of 'essential difference'to one of 'sameness' or general equivalence." …