Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy

Krzysztof Pelc is the Lester B. Pearson Professor of International Relations at Oxford University. His most recent book is Beyond Self-Interest: Why the Market Rewards Those Who Reject It (Bloomsbury and Oxford Press, 2022).

Krzysztof Pelc

Weaponized Plumbing: On Henry Farrell and Abraham L. Newman’s “Underground Empire”

Economics and Finance

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

Nonfiction

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Politics

"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein

Science &amp; Technology

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

History

Krzysztof Pelc is the Lester B. Pearson Professor of International Relations at Oxford University. His most recent book is Beyond Self-Interest: Why the Market Rewards Those Who Reject It (Bloomsbury and Oxford Press, 2022).

Krzysztof Pelc

Articles

Weaponized Plumbing: On Henry Farrell and Abraham L. Newman’s “Underground Empire”