other recent and controversial questions. In an accessible and engaging manner, Winter shows these legal

represent an inexorable globe-bestriding force with a single logic? The Known Economy shows that both camps

, including infrastructure, trade deals, energy policy, the proper size and role of government, the national

countries and factions for trade dominance. This book shows that from the early 1500s to today, at least one

British Empire to dominate--but never entirely control--the worldwide production, trade, and consumption