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Intro -- Foreword -- Preface: The West and the Nature of Its Civilization -- Acknowledgments -- Praise for Slavery, Freedom and Business Endeavor -- Contents -- About the Author -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- 1 Introduction: Civilization and Lived Experience -- What Is Modern Western Civilization? -- 1850 and the Dawn of a New Civilization -- Not Only Economics, but Also Freedom -- Not Only Freedom, but Also State Power -- Escaping Humanity's Eternal Curse-The "Malthusian Trap" -- The Winter of Western Civilization? -- Part I The Quests that Created a New Western Civilization (and Destroyed Others): Crops, Climate, Calories -- 2 The 3-Cs: Crops, Climate, Calories -- 3 Crops and the Shaping of Civilizations -- Wheat -- Rice -- Corn -- 4 Climate: The Destroyer of Civilizations, and How Early Modern Europe Rose from Catastrophe -- The North Atlantic and El Niño-Southern Oscillations -- The Maya: A Civilization in a Terminal Malthusian Trap -- Europe: Climate and Transformative Malthusian Traps, AD 350-1500 -- The Rise of Early Modern Europe: Another Trap? -- 5 The Eternal Challenge: Calorific Expenditure and the Emergence of an Industrialized Civilization -- Slavery, Agriculture, Industry and Capital Intensity -- Transport and the Suffocation of Markets -- Energy, Iron and Escaping the Malthusian Trap -- More Than "Modernization" -- Part II Freedom, Slavery and the Rise of an Industrialized Western Civilization -- 6 Time, Scale and Understandings of Western Civilization -- 7 What Is Freedom? What Is Slavery? -- What Is Freedom? -- What Is Slavery? -- 8 Freedom, Democracy and Individualism: Cause of Business Success or Mere Correlation? -- Greek and Roman Antiquity: Bounded Individualism, Bounded Freedom -- The Premodern West: Individualism as Agent of State Absolutism-Scholarly and Aristocratic Individualism.

This work examines the rise of postmodernism in management scholarship and argues that the prevalence of postmodernist thought reflects a lack of understanding by management researchers of the core principles upon which Western business endeavour is based. The author highlights postmodernism's methodological and conceptual failings, such as disbelief in material progress and economic advancement, and its denial of generalizable laws to direct management research. In its place, the author proposes a return to traditional modernist principles in management research, based on scientific evidence. This ground breaking, timely work will spark debate and challenge previously accepted claims of postmodernism, a nice retort to the anti-business/anti-capitalist literature now prevalent in academia.

Since the early 1960s, the Pan‐Pacific coal trade has underpinned East Asia's industrial development. While the genesis of this trade lay in investment decisions by United States‐based companies that pioneered exports from Australian and western Canadian mines, its development was largely shaped by the strategies of the Japanese steel mills who acted as a buying cartel. By the early 1980s, this cartel had engineered an oversupplied market characterised by constantly falling prices. By 2001, however, this strategy proved counterproductive, as exports of coking coal in particular were concentrated in the hands of an oligopoly of super‐efficient producers that drove up prices.

This article explores the extent and significance of child and youth work in late 19th century Australia. It demonstrates that, while demographic changes meant that almost half the population was aged 19 years or less, this age cohort never comprised more than 18 per cent of the recorded workforce. It is argued that this under‐representation reflects the fact that children and youths were ill‐suited to the work demands of most colonial occupations. They did not threaten the position of adult males in the key areas of the economy such as construction, heavy engineering, pastoral work, mining and transport.