The first book to document the origins and early history of environmentalism, especially its colonial and global aspects.

But this is just the beginning: nanomaterials 200 times stronger than steel and a million times thinner than a strand of hair and the first transplant of a 3D printed liver are already in development.

The main purpose of development is to spread freedom and its thousand charms to the unfree citizens.

Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century showed that capitalism, left to itself, generates deepening inequality.

The big stories -- The skills of the new machines : technology races ahead -- Moore's law and the second half of the chessboard -- The digitization of just about everything -- Innovation : declining or recombining?

First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources in both English and Korean, these essays recover and contextualize many of the ambiguities in South Korea's trajectory from poverty to a sustainable high rate of economic growth.

Debunking the current model of international aid promoted by both Hollywood celebrities and policy makers, Moyo offers a bold new road map for financing development of the world's poorest countries.

This book provides a comprehensive, balanced and reader-friendly account of the developments in climate science over the past 250 years.

This book contains the most sustained and serious attack on mainstream, neoclassical economics in more than forty years. Nelson and Winter focus their critique on the basic question of how firms and industries change overtime.