After reading caficho's thread on the current economic crisis in Argentina and following it in the paper here in Chicago and on NPR, the following thought occurred to me. Why is it that the former ...

The commons refers to shared cultural and natural resources, such as air, water, and land, which are accessible to and protected by all members of a community. More than just a collection of resources ...

Geographies of state transformation : the production of colonial state space -- Envisioning the colonial economy -- Mobile incarceration : travels in colonial state space -- Colonial pedagogical ...

Mercantilism is an economic policy designed to increase a nation's wealth through exports. It thrived in Great Britain between the 16th and 18th centuries. The country enjoyed the greatest benefits of ...

In 1825, a tax collector compiling a census in South Africa’s Cape Colony paused to write a poem in the margin of his work. In it, he complained about the idle chatter of townsmen in Stellenbosch and ...