David A. Westbrook's City of Gold: An Apology for Global Capitalism in a Time of PDF

By David A. Westbrook

ISBN-10: 0415945399

ISBN-13: 9780415945394

ISBN-10: 0415945402

ISBN-13: 9780415945400

David A. Westbrook argues that we are living in "the urban of gold"--a worldwide, cosmopolitan polity the place politics are performed via markets, and the place international capital markets, now not states, became the dominant strength in our social life.

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