Political analyst Rostislav Ishchenko explores how trade shapes the rise of states, the crisis of U.S. hegemony, and the birth of a new global order.
FRED TURNER, Editor
Political analyst Rostislav Ishchenko argues that both socialist and feudal societies treated trade as an unworthy occupation — something equally alien to the proletarian and the nobleman. Yet, he stresses, neither system could survive without it. In his view, commerce is the engine of progress and the very foundation of civilization.