A focus on GDP and national accounts gives a misleading picture of US economic power. In the age of globalization, production ...

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There have been several major phases of development theory since 1945. Alexander Gerschenkron argued that the less developed ...

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The Trump administration’s move to freeze U.S. foreign aid and development work is a seismic event. International development ...

The theory of the “Permanent War Economy” has played an important role in the debates of the radical left from the late 1940s ...

But the line is a fitting encapsulation of music historian Jon Savage’s argument in The Secret Public, a history of ...

The work of the U.S. DOGE Service bears the unmistakable fingerprints of the world’s richest person, even if he’s not formally the administrator. The sale of federal land in Nevada could ...

Immanuel Wallerstein was convinced that the capitalist system would end within the next few decades and would either be ...

It’s like they haven’t just preserved the 1950s aesthetic, but the 1950s economy as well. Pull up a seat in burger heaven. Jiffy Burger’s dining area is where strangers become friends, united by their ...

Regeneration was in full swing in Bristol in the 1950s. Buildings that were Blitz-damaged during the Second World War or in a bad state of disrepair were gradually being bulldozed to make way for ...