‘Live by the gun’ and ‘die by the gun’ in Chad
In Living by the Gun in Chad: Combatants, Impunity and State Formation Marielle Debos offers an illuminating analysis of the construction of the Chadian state and it`s militarized economy, highlighting the neglect of human development in a state where the civilian persona is absent at both the political and economic stage. Debos cleverly challenge our […]
Thorstein Veblen: More relevant than ever
More than a century has passed since the publication of Veblen’s most well-known book, The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions. The book was published in 1899, near the end of the Gilded Age. In the United States, it was a time of almost unprecedented growth in inequality of income and wealth. Because […]
Marketing Sovereign Promises: Monopoly Brokerage and the Growth of the English State
Gary W. Cox (2016). Cambridge University Press. The reader may wonder why we have chosen to highlight a book about England’s rise between 1689 and 1815 from a minor regional power to the most powerful global power. The reason is that we believe that current debates about taxation and state-building in Africa and elsewhere in the Global […]
