This paper examines the concept of hegemony and its historical impacts on the Arabic and Islamic countries. It is foreseen that has long path applied by the Western countries as disclosed by trade applications and history of economic thought. Impacts on Arabic and Islamic countries were visible...

This paper surveys early intellectual antecedents of the Krueger (2001) proposal for creating bankruptcy reorganization procedures at the international level. We focus on actual proposals for new procedures made from the late 1970s up to an influential lecture by Sachs (1995), with brief...

This paper examines the explanation of commercial crises offered by William Huskisson in 1810 in the wake of the debate on the Bullion Report. Huskisson argued that the suspension of convertibility made it possible to extend issues of paper currency beyond its proper limits. Such an expansion,...

The classic defense of free speech has justified its protection on public grounds. Under this view, the First Amendment protects free speech to ensure the proper functioning of democratic self-government by facilitating the spread of truth on important public matters. Recently, however, legal...

This 1997 review in the Times Literary Supplement (London) conjoins two books - the first, by investment banker turned finance historian Peter L. Berstein, is a history of the idea of risk, as it developed from Renaissance times through contemporary finance. The second, by the former editor of...

In Nathaniel Kohn's Pursuing Hollywood, auto/ethnography and interpretive interaction are discussed alongside postmodern sign theory and the machinations of making films in the Hollywood system. Interwoven into this review-essay of Kohn's book are auto/ethnographical elements of the reviewer's...

Autonomy is often critiqued as a concept of individual egoism, and an ethic of care posed in contrast. This article defends autonomy against that critique. Unconditional autonomy, as a capacity of the will, necessarily entails obligations. It will be seen that autonomy is a norm of civility, and...

Robert Muldoon was Prime Minister of New Zealand for nine years from 1975, including those made turbulent by high inflation in the late 1970s. He was, by profession, an accountant. This study considers aspects of Muldoon's career and the accounting firm in which he worked, aspects of his life...

This paper analyses the concept of political risk, its evolution and conceptualisation, and explores its utility as a means of understanding political events and processes that can threaten order, stability and continuity in International Relations and disrupt the normal practices of inter-state...

The problem of risk and uncertainty continues to plague social scientific enquiry, ostensibly imposing epistemological limits to knowledge. This paper explores this issue in relation to the writings and theoretical contributions of Frank Knight, one of the most illustrious economic thinkers of...