By Institute of Contemporary Economics (Part 2) The Social Contract The Social Contract (1) is a work of political philosophy by Jean-Jacques Rosseau....
In 2021, Vietnam began expanding some of its small- and medium-sized outposts in the Spratly Islands through dredging and landfill. As of now, that ef...
In a fit of madness or just plain desperation, you’ve enrolled in a get-rich-quick scheme. All you have to do is sell some products, sign up a few fri...
By Leslie Alan Horvitz All organisms in an ecosystem are interconnected, and any imbalance in this complex relationship can have irreversible conseque...
One halcyon spring day in 1903, the 69-year-old anatomist and naturalist Dr. James Bell Pettigrew sat at the top of a sloping street on the outskirts ...
Last of two parts Starting with the very outset of debt records c. 2500 BCE in Sumer, and continuing down through Babylonia, Assyria, to their neighbo...
By Michael Hudson First of two parts The late 19th century saw economists, mainly German and Austrian, create a mythology of money’s origins that is s...
(Last of two parts) Monetization of Exchange Between the Rural and Urban Centers Money evolved as part of the valuation dimension of exchange. Anthrop...
By Michael Hudson (First of two parts) Archaeologist and scholar Giorgio Buccellati’s book At the Origins of Politics describes how Mesopotamia’s urba...