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Richard Lachmann

Richard Lachmann
Richard Lachmann is a Professor at the University of Albany-SUNY and the author of Capitalists in Spite of Themselves: Elite Conflict and Economic Transitions in Early Modern Europe, States and Power and What Is Historical Sociology?


Life at the End of American Empire

Richard Lachmann on the Slow Decline of a Superpower
January 14, 2020  By Richard Lachmann
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