Tying together cultural history, legal history, and institutional economics, The Laws and Economics of Confucianism: Kinship and Property in Pre-Industrial China and England offers a novel argument as to why Chinese and English pre-industrial economic development went down different paths. The...

"Biotraffic delves into the complex world of biological resource trade, taking readers inside the contemporary Ciskei region of South Africa, a once-notorious apartheid 'homeland' turned extractive hub for wild medicinal plants. Drawing from in-depth ethnographic fieldwork and archival research,...

Früher oder später wird alles weggeworfen. In der Konsumgesellschaft wandern aber auch gebrauchsfähige und neuwertige Produkte auf den Müll. Solche Verhaltensweisen sind das Ergebnis eines langfristigen Prozesses, entstanden über einen Zeitraum von anderthalb Jahrhunderten. Vorläufer waren...

"This is a rigorous academic inquiry into how labor power has been dehumanized and commodified around the world through the ages for creation of wealth, capital accumulation, and industrialization. Major forms of unfree and involuntary labor markets around the world-from slavery to serfdom, from...