This book traces regional income inequality in Spain during the transition from a pre-industrial society to a modern economy, using the Spanish case to shed further light on the challenges that emerging economies are facing today. Regional inequality is currently one of the most pressing...

The quality of life experienced by people in the past is one of the most important areas of historical enquiry, and the standard of living of populations is one of the leading measures of the economic performance of nations. Yet how accurate is the information on which these judgments are based?...

The space and time of capitalist crisis and transition -- Operations of capital -- Capital, state, empire -- Extraction, logistics, finance -- Vistas of struggle -- The state of capitalist globalization

Max Weber was the foremost social theorist of the twentieth century; Economy and Society is Weber's most famous work after The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. It consists of diverse essays that Weber was working on at the time of his death in 1920, ranging over subjects in...

-- Funk is located in Gainesville, FL -- Funk's monograph is a carefully-crafted expansion of his dissertation, which earned the American Political Science Association's Bronner Dissertation Award. He has a good social media presence and is well known and regarded in the Global Studies and...