Secrets of Hegemony

Tai-Yoo Kim teaches economics at Seoul National University (SNU). Founder of SNU's Technology Management, Economics and Policy Program, Kim has published extensively on energy economics and technology policy and has served as policy consultant and adviser for both Korean companies and the government. Most recently, he served as chief information, science and technology adviser to the president of the Republic of Korea.Daeryoon Kim is an associate professor of history in the School of Undergaduate Studies at Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology. His Oxford doctorate examined the political methods and ideas of colonial merchants in London in the period 1763-83, and he has published several articles in both Korean and English on the political economy of Hanoverian Britain.

• Introduction.- Chapter 1: Theoretical Premises and Historical Method.- Chapter 2: Early Modern Spain.- Chapter 3: Rise and Decline of the Dutch Economic Supremacy.- Chapter 4: The Perfection of an Expansive Reinvestment System in England.- Chapter 5: The Story of England (cont.).- Chapter 6: The Case of the United States.- Chapter 7: The Story of the U.S. Economy (cont.).