Fourth, since ancient times China has cultivated an appetite for knowledge and technological solutions to production problems. China invented gunpowder, mechanical clocks, the compass, printing and paper, among other things. After the launch of reform and opening-up in 1978, substantive budget allocati...
The US linking of tariff threats and sanctions to the US' geopolitical rivalry with China contradicts one of the core propagandistic arguments when, for instance, the Central America, Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement was being promoted. More than just raising eyebrows, the US administration m...
Fourth, since ancient times China has cultivated an appetite for knowledge and technological solutions to production problems. China invented gunpowder, mechanical clocks, the compass, printing and paper, among other things. After the launch of reform and opening-up in 1978, substantive budget allocati...
The US linking of tariff threats and sanctions to the US' geopolitical rivalry with China contradicts one of the core propagandistic arguments when, for instance, the Central America, Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement was being promoted. More than just raising eyebrows, the US administration m...
For anarchists, capitalism is marked by the exploitation of labour by capital. While this is most famously expressed by Proudhon’s "property is theft," this perspective can be found in all forms of anarchism. For Bakunin, capitalism was marked by an "economic relationship between the exploiter...
of countries deeply discredited before the US' Western allies. Cuts in the budget of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) might prove right those who consider American capitalism highly predatory and might cause havoc in many countries and groups of people that benefited from US aid...
The 'digital revolution' and the 'network society' are trumpeted as the new basis for globalisation, a combination of technology and management practices that justifies global capitalism in its claimed right to lead the world. Yet Management and Organisation Studies (MOS) was dominant many decades...
Why was the National Forest System created? Why did capitalism emerge from the Industrial Revolution? Why was the Director of National Intelligence created? Why did forced labor continue after the Civil War? Why does the president need a cabinet? Why was feudalism developed? Why was the Food St...
"The State" is something completely different. It was invented by rebels and imported into Israel in1 Samuel 8. Moses warned of this faithless backsliding rejection of God inDeuteronomy 17. The State: Machinery of Murder During the 20th century, "the State" killed more than 10,000 people eve...
How superior can this seventh wonder of capitalism be? Is Loro Piana’s T-shirt really 32,536% better than Next’s Basic Crew Neck, currently yours for just £5.50? We grizzly frugalists may scoff – but we face a similar face-off whenever we’re tempted by smooth marketing sirens wh...