Рассматривается ключевая для современного капиталистического общества проблема неравенства. Автор, опираясь на работу П. Розанваллона, рассматривает историческую динамику соотношения «равенство - неравенствов обществе модерна; подробно исследует ключевые факторы роста неравенства в развитых странах последние четыре десятилетия. Особое внимание статье уделено проблеме связи с бурным развитием те...

Excerpt] The Manifesto of the Communist Party, published 150 years ago in London in February 1848, is one of the most influential and widely-read documents of the past two centuries. The historian A. J. P. Taylor (1967, p. 7) has called it a "holy book," and contends that because of it, "everyone thinks differently about politics and society." And yet, despite its enormous influence in the 20th...

As the interviewees in EMBO reports’ recent multi-person interview on the future of research universities made clear, universities continue to play a crucial role in the future of knowledge-based economies at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Although universities have also played a vital role in the invention and success of industrybased capitalism in the preceding centuries (Nelson, ...

As the interviewees in EMBO reports’ recent multi-person interview on the future of research universities made clear, universities continue to play a crucial role in the future of knowledge-based economies at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Although universities have also played a vital role in the invention and success of industrybased capitalism in the preceding centuries (Nelson, ...

Western societies have developed into a historically new stage in the evolution of capitalism, one which is characterized by corporations exercising monopolistic power and sustaining demand by advertising through the media. While this theme has been emphasized e.g., by J. A. Schumpeter in Business Cycles; A Theoretical, Historical and Statistical Analysis of the Capitalist Process, chapter III,...