The 2013 UN Human Development report predicts the middle classes of 'The South'a five-
fold increase by 2030. Globalisation has resulted in national conceptions of business …

This article reviews the ways in which historians and economists have applied the term
'globalization'to the early modern era. It distinguishes a soft and a hard definition, and goes …

I contend that everyone working in the field of market or social research should be
potentially interested in the topic of social class, and be curious to know what Savage and …

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 …

This informative series covers the broad span of modern imperial history while also
exploring the recent developments in former colonial states where residues of empire can …

In this book, John O'Regan examines the role of political economy in the worldwide spread
of English and traces the origins and development of the dominance of English to the …

Southern Theory presents the case for a radical re-thinking of social science and its
relationships to knowledge, power and democracy on a world scale. Mainstream social …

We exploit differences in European mortality rates to estimate the effect of institutions on
economic performance. Europeans adopted very different colonization policies in different …

We combine georeferenced data on mining extraction of 14 minerals with information on
conflict events at spatial resolution of 0.5 o× 0.5 o for all of Africa between 1997 and 2010 …

The second major contribution which Carlota Perez made in that paper was to point out that
such a 'meta-paradigm'change, affecting the entire economy entailed the very widespread …