"For more than a century, governments facing financial crisis have resorted to the economic policies of austerity-cuts to wages, fiscal spending, and public benefits-as a means to regain solvency. While these policies have been successful in appeasing creditors, they've had devastating effects...

Der Band ist die Fortschreibung und Erweiterung des 2015 erschienenen Textes mit der Aktualisierung des statistischen Materials bis 2023. Die bisherige Analyse wird neben dem Ausweis von Konjunkturdaten sowie Mehrwert- und Profitraten durch den Einbezug von Banken, Versicherungen und der...

"Imagine a capitalist paradise. An island utopia governed solely by the rules of the market and inspired by the fictions of Ayn Rand and Robinson Crusoe. Your own private archipelago. Sound far-fetched? It may not be. The past half-century is littered with the remains of such experiments in what...

The annual is a venue of publication for sociological studies of Chinese societies and the Chinese all over the world. The main focus is on social transformations in Hong Kong, Taiwan, the mainland, Singapore and Chinese overseas.