Has the economic order really changed that much? Free trade is dead. According to Bridgewater Capital, a large and influential hedge fund, it has been replaced by the “new mercantilism.” This is basic...
The world economic order is changing, driven above all by the American turn against free trade. Here are some predictions about how world trade is going to shift in the next few years. World trade vol...
“The water’s very low!” says Feargus, stating the obvious, as we run aground. I don’t need him to tell me. Looking over the side, the clear waters of Lough Leane aren’t even a foot deep. The limestone...
Red Globalization: The Political Economy of the Soviet Cold War from Stalin to Krushchev, by Oscar Sanchez Sibony (Cambridge University Press) Twentieth-century globalisation was a capitalist, Western...
What were the business realities of Caribbean slavery?...
The Greeks: A Global History by Roderick Beaton (Faber) If ever there was a good place to show how a nation is not always a state, it is Greece. Roderick Beaton has written a breakneck whip through th...