This book surveys the role of Amsterdam’s Sephardic merchants in the westward expansion of sugar production and trade in the seventeenth-century Atlantic. It offers an historical-geographic perspective, linking Amsterdam as an emerging staple market to a network of merchants of the "Portuguese...

The slave trades out of Africa represent one of the most significant forced migration experiences in history. In this paper, I illustrate their long-term consequences on contemporaneous socio-economic outcomes, drawing from my own previous work on the topic and from an extensive review of the...

Portfolio allocation in the Americas / Marcelo Camerlo and Cecilia Martínez-Gallardo -- It my way : portfolio allocation in the United States (1969-2013) / Maria Escobar-Lemmon, MaryAnne Borrelli and Michelle Taylor Robinson -- Diverse profiles within single-party cabinets : portfolio...

Silicon Valley technology is transforming the way we work, and Uber is leading the charge. An American startup that promised to deliver entrepreneurship for the masses through its technology, Uber instead built a new template for employment using algorithms and Internet platforms. Upending our...