The 4 th industrial revolution and global decarbonisation are frequently referred to as two
interrelated megatrends. Particularly, where the 4 th industrial revolution is expected to …

We examine the effect of research and development (R&D) intensity on carbon dioxide (CO
2) emissions in the Group of Seven (G7) countries since the nineteenth century using a non …

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States enjoys unparalleled military power.
The international system is therefore unipolar. A quarter century later, however, we still …

The United States of America has been the most powerful country in the world for over
seventy years, but recently the US National Security Strategy declared that the return of …

Latin America Confronts the United States offers a new perspective on US-Latin America
relations. Drawing on research in six countries, the book examines how Latin American …

Focusing on data from the United States and the United Kingdom, we document that both
the anomaly identified by Backus and Smith, which concerns the low correlation between …

ABSTRACT [T] here is not one distribution of income but many: income is distributed across
racial groups, income classes, present and future generations, and so on. Moreover, a given …

This study examines conditional convergence in relative per capita carbon dioxide
emissions by using the recently developed Residual Augmented Least Squares-Lagrange …

This paper argues that the social nature of humans, absent from the standard economic
model, is crucial for understanding our large modern social states and why concerns about …

In this concise historical and conceptual analysis of China's evolving position in a world
defined predominantly by global capitalist development, Lin offers a critical review of …