The SDG Summit will take place on 18-19 September 2023 in New York. UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called it the “centrepiece” of the UN’s work this year. Numerous reports for this year’s mid-term review of the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs will lament the “lack of political...

Human origins -- Early historical perspectives. State systems versus segmentary societies ; Rulers and ruled ; External pressures -- The colonial state. The L(c)♭opoldian legacy ; Belgian paternalism: underlying postulates ; The apparatus of control ; Postwar reforms -- Nationalist awakenings....

An economy in flux, by J. R. Coleman.--The market economy today, by B. W. Lewis--Keeping competition alive, by M. A. Adelman.--Corporations big and small, by A. A. Berle.--The consumer in an affluent society, by J. N. Morgan.--Private sector and public sector, by J. R. Coleman.--Agriculture:...