But the same empire-building logic could be applied within Enron itself. If profit and value emerged not from underlying reality but from information, risk assessment, and financial instruments, well then Enron itself could be commoditized, financialized, derivatized. Under Skilling, first as COO ...
“Christians in the contemporary West who cease to identify the continuation of civility and moral community with the maintenance of American empire, and who therefore are keen to construct local forms of community as loci of Christian resistance against what the empire represents.” The idea and ...
The Majapahit record, Nagarakretagama dated 1365 CE, mentioned that the land of Melayu was dominated by Majapahit Empire. From these records, the name Malayu seems to be identified with the area around the Batanghari valley from estuarine to hinterland in present-day central-eastern of ...
but of ourselves. As Tocqueville sees it, the search for such self-understanding is the key to intelligent self-government: he oncedescribed his purposein writingDemocracy in Americaas to “teach democracy to know itself and thus to guide itself and restrain itself.” Self-knowledge...
the mercy of nature. And once the primitive enemy was defeated, the British carried out their moral obligation to instruct him in the ways of modern civilization, especially the acquisition of technological benefits. Churchill was hugely proud of the civilizing mission essential to British empire-...
Apollonius of Rhodes, another scholar of the 3rd century bce, preserved the fullest account of the Argonauts in search of the Golden Fleece. In the period of the Roman Empire, the Geography of Strabo (1st century bce), the Library of the pseudo-Apollodorus (attributed to a 2nd-century-ce ...