The cotton crisis: Lancashire, the American South, and the turn to "Empire Cotton" -- "The Black man's crop": The British Cotton Growing Association and Africa -- "The scientific redemption of Africa": Coercion and regulation in colonial agriculture -- "King Cotton's impoverished retinue":...

Silver, mercantilism, and the impulse for colonization -- The first decades of English American settlement, 1607- -- Monetary upheaval, recovery and the Dutch infiltration, 1640- -- Mercantilism, mints, clipping, smuggling, and piracy, 1660- -- Empire in crisis and flux, 1670- -- Showdown in...

In dieser bemerkenswerten und zeitgemäße︣n Ergänzung zu seiner Principles-Reihe nimmt Dalio die Leser mit auf seine Studie über die grossen Imperien IBM einschliesslich des holländischen, britischen und amerikanischen IBM und rückt den ?grossen Zyklus?, der die Erfolge und Misserfolge...

A few years ago, Dalio noticed a confluence of political and economic conditions he hadn't encountered before: huge debts and zero or near-zero interest rates that led to massive printing of money in the world's three major reserve currencies. Here Dalio brings readers along for his study of the...