Acclaimed critic Sianne Ngai theorizes the gimmick as an aesthetic category reflecting the fundamental laws of capitalism. Gimmicks make... Læs mere
Deeply Responsible Business profiles corporate leaders of the past two centuries who made social missions vital to their... Læs mere
Traversing 2,500 years of global history, Ulbe Bosma shows how sugar, once a luxury reserved for... Læs mere
Wendy Brown diagnoses a late-modern nihilism that trivializes values—including truth itself—and reduces politics to narcissism and power-mongering. Rereading Max... Læs mere
Joseph LeDoux argues that ideas like the self are increasingly barriers to discovery and understanding. He offers a new framework, theorizing... Læs mere
Elizabeth Ingleson explores the roots of bilateral trade between the United States and China. Telling the story of the 1970s US... Læs mere
Artificial intelligence threatens to disrupt the professions as it has manufacturing. Frank Pasquale argues that law and policy can avert... Læs mere
Far from a stagnant “Middle Ages,” the years 600–1350 witnessed globalization and social innovation. Entangled Worlds explores long-distance trade in the Americas, cosmopolitan... Læs mere
Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century showed that capitalism, left to itself, generates deepening inequality. In this audacious follow-up, he challenges us to... Læs mere