Technology is a key factor for economic development and economic power. This chapter tries to evaluate the sources and the impact of technological power and its changes in the US and China in the 2000-2018 years in a comparative way. The analysis of capital accumulation, education, R.&D....

‘This is essential reading for anybody interested in global history.’ -Professor Ugo Panizza, The Graduate Institute of Geneva, Switzerland This illuminating book offers a compact survey and new interpretation of trends and policies in the US economy from the end of the nineteenth century to...

The current crisis is one of the great crises punctuating the long history of capitalism, and to be properly understood it is vital to take into account its ongoing structural transformation. This book offers plural perspectives on the Great Recession, placing the analysis of finance, class and...