First-Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship: Elite Politics and the Decline of Great Powers

by Richard Lachmann

A history of why great powers decline, from Spain to the United States

The extent and irreversibility of US decline is becoming ever more obvious as America loses war after war and as one industry after another loses its technological edge. Lachmann explains why the United States will not be able to sustain its global dominance, and contrasts America's relatively brief period of hegemony with the Netherlands' similarly short primacy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1788734084
• ISBN13: 9781788734080
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.