The New York Review of Books
‘Apocalypse Soon’: An Exchange
To the Editors of the New York Review of Books: In response to Alexander Stille’s “Apocalypse Soon” [NYR, November 7, 2002], I must correct some factual errors and clarify some important points. The essay is presented as a review of Empire, a book I coauthored with Michael Hardt, but, in fact, it is instead a profile…
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Empire by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Harvard University Press, 478 pp., $36.95; $18.95 (paper) The book Empire by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri has come as close to becoming an international best seller as a university press book dense with references to Spinoza, Marx, and Gilles Deleuze is likely to get. Translated into more than a…
Continue readingMaking Way for Berlusconi
The recent Italian elections were not just a clear triumph for the center-right coalition of media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi. They were also a major defeat for the center-left parties that have governed the country since their victory in 1996. In one sense, their defeat bears some resemblance to Al Gore’s loss to George W. Bush…
Continue readingAn Old Key To Why Countries Get Rich
Why has Poland prospered and Russia struggled since the end of the cold war? Why is the economy of South Korea 15 times as large as that of Ghana when they were comparable less than 40 years ago? Why have the Chinese minorities thrived economically in such different places as Malaysia, the Philippines and San…
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