Cornell Global Perspectives imprint: 3 books
In Search of the Free Individual
The History of the Russian-Soviet Soul
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
"I love life in its living form, life that’s found on the street, in human conversations, shouts, and moans." So begins this speech delivered in Russian at Cornell University by Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature. In poetic language, Alexievich traces the origins of...
by Naoto Kan
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
In a speech delivered in Japanese at Cornell University, Naoto Kan describes the harrowing days after a cataclysmic earthquake and tsunami led to the meltdown of three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. In vivid language, he tells how he struggled with the possibility that tens...
Financial Citizenship
Experts, Publics, and the Politics of Central Banking
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2018
Government bailouts; negative interest rates and markets that do not behave as economic models tell us they should; new populist and nationalist movements that target central banks and central bankers as a source of popular malaise; new regional organizations and geopolitical alignments laying claim...