Sleepwalking into a new Imperial Age

Sleepwalking into a new Imperial Age

Cambridge-MA, USABy Ricardo Hausmann CAMBRIDGE – When you look at a building, you can see its walls, windows, and decorative flourishes but not the hidden structure that holds everything together. Yet during an earthquake, or after years of strain, that unseen framework can suddenly collapse. The same is true of the fragile political structures that support much of the developing world. In 1651, Thomas Hobbes – deeply affected by the violence of…