Given its recent development of becoming a fully fledged legislature in EU politics, the European Parliament is increasingly compared to the USA House of Representatives. At the same time, a lot of scholars that have analyzed the evolution of party cohesion within the European Parliament (see,...

Beginning with the economic meltdown of 2007/8, this book shows that the predatory mortgage lending and overleveraging - which is to say, the overextension of credit - which precipitated The Great Recession was a response to a crisis of overproduction reflective of an unavoidable contradiction...

This research argues that deep-rooted factors, determined tens of thousands of years ago, had a signifcant effect on the course of economic development from the dawn of human civilization to the contemporary era. It advances and empirically establishes the hypothesis that, in the course of the...