The well-travelled life and consistently lucid, radical thought of global labour’s great comparative ethnographer—and social ...

2. definitions of well-being At this point, we need to unpack the idea of well-being. The idea of a steady-state or sustainable economy puts constraints on material throughput, but does not tell us ...

One of the more telling features of the present conjuncture is the scarcity of analyses able squarely to place today’s global turbulence in geohistorical perspective. 1 In his sustained examinations ...

I used to play basketball in Bavaria with a man born in the Ivory Coast. He had been adopted at the age of four by a white middle-class couple in Munich, both doctors. We fell in with each other ...

A Tendency to Profit From a Fallen Theory Turning to Coates’ first underlying assumption, it is clearly beyond the scope of this essay to go into all the arguments for and against the theory of the ...

Donald Sassoon’s One Hundred Years of Socialism is in physical form as well as in intellectual content very suitable to its actual object of study, Western European social democracy and labourism ...

Fernando Claudin was a leader of the Spanish Communist Party until his expulsion in 1964, and is the author of the already classic The Communist Movement: from Comintern to Cominform. 1 The analysis ...

the most important events in the international socialist movement in 1960 took place in Cuba. And it may be that the most important event of 1961 will be the consolidation or overthrow of Cuba’s ...

11 Ibid. p. 41. There are also a number of linguistic points that require correction. On p. 40 and elsewhere, it would be better to write the plural of seyyid (a member of the caste claiming descent ...

Robert Gordon’s Rise and Fall of American Growth offers a vast narrative, encompassing some 150 years of us economic history since 1870, with prospective views up to 2040 or so. 1 The conclusion is ...

No European statesman of the last century enjoys so exalted a reputation in his homeland as Charles de Gaulle. Of his contemporaries, Adenauer and Macmillan were, by contrast, middling figures.

A book by Ken Galbraith is an event to arouse high expectations. 1 He is one of the very few writers in economics capable of combining exceptionally penetrating matter with a delicious manner—a ...