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An international system without hegemony, interview with Beverly Silver
A long-term analisys of the history of capitalism, a reading of the global system as a combination of economics and state power: this is the perspective that Beverly Silver, professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins University, where she directs the Arrighi Center for Global Studies, brought to Italy, a month-long…
Read moreHegemonic transitions and the international order – Beverly Silver
Beverly Silver's Ciampi Lecture: Hegemonic transitions and the international order The decline of U.S. hegemony in a global system marked by instability and conflict is at the centre of the Ciampi Lecture, held by Beverly Silver, Johns Hopkins University, and Ciampi Visiting Scholar. Silver identifies the beginning of this phase of decline…
Read moreThe Origins of the Amazon Economy – Kathleen Thelen’s Ciampi Lecture
In her Ciampi Lecture, Professor Kathleen Thelen, presented the results of her research on what she calls the "origins of the Amazon economy", pointing out the continuity and differences between the platform and app economy monopolized by Big Tech and the history of mail-order retail in the early decades of…
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