This is a review of recent research on world-systems. We cover studies of the current system
and studies that compare the contemporary global system with earlier, smaller intersocietal …

This original book is a wide-ranging, radical and highly innovative critique of the prevailing
orthodoxies within industrial relations and human resource management. It covers: central …

The advent of economic neoliberalism in the 1980s triggered a shift in the world economy. In
the three decades following World War II, now considered a golden age of capitalism …

Neoliberalism is the ideological expression of the return to hegemony of the financial
fraction of ruling classes. The meaning of this movement can only be understood from a …

The decline of the profit rate since World War II, up to the early 1980s, is now widely
acknowledged, and a new upward trend has been identified. This study presents new …

Financial relations considerably alter the profile of the profit rate of nonfinancial
corporations. Large rates are maintained to the end of the 1970s. Conversely, rates are …

Neither the existence of a global tendency toward the centralization of capital as theorized
by Marx nor the possible links between economic crisis and capital centralization have been …

This book deals with the economics of capitalism, that is, the economic system, the salient
feature of which is 'generalized'commodity production. The characterization …

Alfred Kleinknecht*'... there is one hypothesis, now out of fashion, that I would like to back.
That is Schumpeter's theory of bouts of investment induced by major technical discoveries …

Origins: democracy in the ancient Greek world--Democracy suppressed: the Roman republic
and empire--The early Middle Ages and the transition from feudalism to capitalism--The …