This paper aims to clarify an economic mechanism behind the growing dichotomy between geo-economics and the borderless global knowledge economy. The proposed hypothesis is that geo-economic fault-lines, which are the product of the past prejudices of racial, linguistic, and cultural…

Early reviewers of The Quincunx (1989) immediately recognised the novel's striking
stylistic and thematic indebtedness to Dickens and to other early Victorian writers, a fact
that led them to describe Charles Palliser's first novel as a brilliant attempt to reproduce