This thought-provoking monograph analyzes long- medium- and short-term global cycles of prosperity, recession, and depression, plotting them against centuries o

The focus of this volume is on the role of the developmental state in a situation in which a series of major crises affects the (semi-) periphery of the global

This new monograph provides a stimulating new take on hotly contested topics in world modernization and the globalizing economy. It begins by situating what is

An empirical investigation of financial crises during the last 800 years.

Echoing the famous "The Limits to Growth" report from 1972, this edited volume analyses the changes that the World System has undergone to the present, on the f