Utopia for Realists
From a universal basic income to a 15-hour workweek, from a world without borders to a world without poverty – it’s time to return to...
Inequality, Globalization, and World Politics
Inequality is becoming an urgent issue of world politics at the end of the twentieth century. Globalization is not only exacerbating the...
Retrotopia
We have long since lost our faith in the idea that human beings could achieve human happiness in some future ideal state a state that...
EGO: The Game of Life
Twenty-five years after the end of the Cold War, a new Cold War is being waged in our societies. During the Cold War a theoretical model...
How Much Globalization Can We Bear?
According to current debates, ¨individualization¨ has frequently been proposed as the conceptual counterpart to ¨globalization¨. It has...
Homo Deus. A brief history of tomorrow
International Bestseller Yuval Noah Harari, author of the bestselling Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, envisions a not-too-distant...
The Golden Cockerel
Mexican master Rulfo’s innovative 1955 novel Pedro Páramo, which influenced Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, has...
Water Margin: Hong Kong´s Link to The Sea
Water Margin, Hong Kong´s Link to The Sea is an appreciation of Hong Kong´s maritime resources in all aspects ranging from heritage,...
Consumptionomics: Asia's role in reshaping capitalism and saving the planet
In his recent book Consumptionomics Chandran Nair advocates that the Western model of consumption-led economic growth cannot be...
Revolutions: A Very Short Introduction
From 1789 in France to 2011 in Cairo, revolutions have shaken the world. In their pursuit of social justice, revolutionaries have taken...
