"In this book, Hannes Lacher traces the modern disjuncture of the spaces of economic organization and political governance to the territorial prefiguration of capitalism, and analyses the distinctive strategies through which states and social forces sought to overcome this gap in historically...

This volume debates the complex nature of the relationships between globalization, social and economic transformations and growing inequalities. Employing a global, world-historical and comparative perspective, the 16 articles brought together in this volume deal with three central questions:...