Understanding Society

What role did American multinational auto companies play in the rearmament of Germany during the early period of Nazi rule? And to what exte...

Agriculture remains the primary source of income for India's population, and the majority of India's farmers subsist on sma...

One reasonable way of thinking about the most fundamental goal of international economic development is to increase the level of human ...

Capitalism is one particular configuration of the economic institutions that define production and consumption in a society. It invol...

image: scenes from Mumbai, April 2016 Inequalities of wealth and income throughout the world have generated a great deal of attenti...

Hilton Root has published some very interesting ideas about systems thinking in international relations theory in  Dynamics among Nations:...

Saskia Sassen is the leading urban theorist of the global world. (Here are several prior posts that intersect with her work.) Her The Glob...

Work defines a large portion of life in any society, traditional or modern.  How should we think about the social and economic forces tha...

I had an interesting discussion with a senior executive of Kelly Services that provided some very striking new perspectives on the world ...

Professor Luciano Segreto lectured in Michigan this week on the subject of a comparison between US and European capitalisms.  Segreto is ...