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Free Trade and Free Ports in the Mediterranean
How did free trade emerge in early-modern times? How did the Mediterranean as a specific region – with its own historical characteristics – produce a culture in which the free port appeared? What was the relation between the type of free trade created in early-modern Italy and the development of global trade and commercial competition between states for hegemony in the eighteenth century? And how did the position of the free port, originally a Mediterranean ‘invention’, develop over the course of time? The contributions to this volume address these questions and explain the institutional genealogy of the free port. Free Trade and Free Ports in the Mediterranean analyses the atypical ...
The Swedish Microchipping Phenomenon
This book maps the discourse around the Swedish phenomenon of microchipping humans. With help from a theory cluster of different theories on human-technology relationships, the author explains different perspectives present within the discourse.
Samhällsbyggandet som mysterium
Jane Jacobs blev känd över världen för sin bok The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Genom boken och sin aktivism på gatunivå i 1960-talets New York blev hon en centralfigur inom stadsplaneringsfrågor och hennes insatser har efter genombrottet ständigt tolkats och debatterats. Den tidiga berömmelsen verkar emellertid ha överskuggat hennes författarskap trots att det sträcker sig fram till 2004. Jacobs breddade sitt tänkande till att omfatta samhällsbyggandet i dess vidaste mening från ekonomi och ekologi till politik och samhällsfilosofi. Hennes böcker tvingar läsaren att reflektera och vidga sitt synfält. Jacobs är mer aktuell än någonsin i den ovissa värld vi ...
The Free Port of Livorno and the Transformation of the Mediterranean World, 1574-1790
In the twilight of the Renaissance, the grand duke of Tuscany--a scion of the fabled Medici family of bankers--invited foreign merchants, artisans, and ship captains to settle in his port city of Livorno. The town quickly became one of the most bustling port cities in the Mediterranean, presenting a rich tableau of officials, merchants, mariners, and slaves. Nobody could have predicted in 1600 that their activities would contribute a chapter in the history of free trade. Yet by the late seventeenth century, the grand duke's invitation had evolved into a general program of hospitality towards foreign visitors, the liberal treatment of goods, and a model for the elimination of customs duties. Livorno was the earliest and most successful example of a free port in Europe. The story of Livorno shows the seeds of liberalism emerging, not from the studies of philosophers such as Adam Smith, but out of the nexus between commerce, politics, and identity in the early modern Mediterranean.
Here comes the sun
"Here Comes the Sun" is an exhibition on cosmology, time, and our most prominent celestial body. The exhibition will occupy all of Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall with a wide array of works. Among these is Rivane Neuenschwander's installation visualizing the passage of time with the help of water drops; Olafur Eliasson's model of a house based on how the sun's rays fall on the Swedish capital, which is a component in his installation "Stockholm Solar Lab"; Tobias Rehberger's "7 ends of the world", featuring 222 hand-blown glass lamps that correspond in real time to the light in various parts of the world; a film by Tacita Dean central to her work in which she tracks a solar eclipse, following the course of events before, during, and after; and a living eco-system in a fish pond by Avital Geva, whose concern is with nature and time"
Fluctuating Alliances
What was the role of art in the context of rapidly changing political alliances of the early modern period? The interdisciplinary contributions to this volume explore this question from the perspectives of "War and Peace," "Jesuits and Diplomacy," "Negotiating with Faith," and "Court and Diplomatic Celebrations". Special attention is paid to those art genres that were suitable for easy distribution due to their reproducibility, such as medals and prints. But also paintings, tombs and ephemeral festivities like fireworks served the manifestation of claims to power. The exemplary analyses provide a broad view of the political dimensions of early modern transcultural artistic exchange in Europe and beyond.
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Il grande imbroglio
Le grandi multinazionali della consulenza – McKinsey, Deloitte, Kpmg e poche altre – hanno conquistato in breve tempo un potere enorme nell'economia contemporanea. Come hanno fatto? Perché i governi di tutto il mondo hanno affidato scelte decisive per i propri paesi a società che rispondono solo ai propri azionisti? Con quali conseguenze per tutti noi? In tutto il mondo, negli ultimi trent'anni, imprese private e governi si sono affidati sempre più spesso a società di consulenza per ricevere consigli sulla propria gestione o sugli orizzonti strategici da perseguire. L'esito è stato disastroso: l'affidamento delle nostre economie a società come McKinsey & Company, Boston Consulting ...
Congratulations!
Pipilotti Rist, one of the most acclaimed Swiss artists of today, and Richard Julin, chief curator at Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall (Sweden), met for a day in Zurich in connection with the preparations for Rist's solo exhibition "Gravity, Be My Friend" in Stockholm in Spring 2007. Their conversation began at the artist's studio and carried on into the evening back at her home, while they cooked and ate dinner together. The resulting book "Congratulations!" is a very personal and fascinating conversation that reveals new dimensions of the world of Pipilotti Rist, with anecdotes from the creation process and reflections on life, art and food. The richly illustrated book features images of the major new piece, "Tyngdkraft, var min van" (Gravity, Be My Friend), created especially for the exhibition. Never before published images of recent works by Pipilotti Rist such as "Homo Sapiens Sapiens" shown at the Venice Biennale 2005, "A Liberty Statue For London", 2006, and many other seminal works are also included. AUTHOR: Art historian, curator at the Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall 103 illustrations
Marknadens tyranni
Sedan 1980-talet har marknadsliberalismen stått högst på dagordningen. Ett snart 40-årigt ideologiskt experiment grundat på övertron till avreglering, privatisering, stora skattesänkningar och jakten på tillväxt. Men ska vi kunna försvara demokratin har vi ett ansvar att reda ut varför vi hamnat där vi gjort. I boken Marknadens tyranni – och hur vi kan rädda demokratin dokumenterar Björn Elmbrant den nyliberala tankemässiga dominansen i vår tid, så stark att vi ofta inte ens inser att den finns, trots alarmerande rapporter om växande klassklyftor, skatteparadis och en tynande välfärdssektor. Varför drogs vi egentligen så starkt till det nyliberala ljuset? Om det handlar den här boken. BJÖRN ELMBRANT är journalist och författare, med en bakgrund som politisk och ekonomisk reporter för tidningar, radio och TV. Han har tidigare gett ut bland annat politiska biografier över Olof Palme och Thorbjörn Fälldin. År 2000 fick Elmbrant Stora Journalistpriset.»
