Social Construction and the Logic of Money

Social Construction and the Logic of MoneyExamines the nature of international economic leadership since the seventeenth century. While other studies of international leadership have looked at a variety of measures to predict behavior, this book demonstrates that the key factor is international finance. J. Samuel Barkin uses an innovative blend of rationalist and constructivist methodologies, approaches to international political economy that normally exist in isolation from one another.

from its beginnings in the late eighteenth century to its premature decline in the years leading up to the First World War

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The most complete collection of essays on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit available in any language

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Focusing on how peer culture shapes identity in public and private spaces

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a knowledge of this history was assumed by most Neo-Latin writers as well as their contemporaries who wrote in the vernacular

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and is organized to build from simple to greater complexity