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Mohandas Karamchand [Mahatma] Gandhi (1869-1948), anti-colonial nationalist who led nonviolent campaign for India's national self-reliance and independence from British rule; with spinning wheel and c...
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A year or so before South Africa hosted the 2010 FIFA World Cup, a visiting professor gave a talk at a South African university. He asked a very simple question: How do you win a world cup?
Do you,...
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In the spring of 1716, the entire French financial community was put on trial in a ritual prosecution known as the chambre de justice. Over the preceding centuries, these trials were held periodically,...
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If
one visits Shanghai’s iconic waterfront known as the Bund (or Waitan in
Chinese) today, one immediately notices the many historical buildings that line
the western side of the Huangpu River. Remnants...
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This is the question that we get asked most often following the recent publication of our book Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles. With the U.S. stock market booming in the middle of...
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Historians have long argued that the value of their field lay in its applicability to the present day. It serves society best, according to a recent formulation, as a guide that encourages broad perspective...
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How we understand and respond to failure is one of the most defining features of how our lives pan out. Some people refuse to fail. Some people expect to fail. Some people always hide from their own failings...
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The World Trade Organization has always had more critics than champions. These days, the charges that are made against the WTO include that it has overstepped its authority, that it impedes the ability...
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Mohandas Karamchand [Mahatma] Gandhi (1869-1948), anti-colonial nationalist who led nonviolent campa...
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A year or so before South Africa hosted the 2010 FIFA World Cup, a visiting professor...
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In the spring of 1716, the entire French financial community was put on trial in...
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If
one visits Shanghai’s iconic waterfront known as the Bund (or Waitan in
Chinese)...
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This is the question that we get asked most often following the recent publication...
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Historians have long argued that the value of their field lay in its applicability...
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How we understand and respond to failure is one of the most defining features of...
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The World Trade Organization has always had more critics than champions. These...
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