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Oxford University Press, Clarendon, 1969, 181 pgs., index, footnotes,
paperback
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Reviewer comments:
This is a typical economist's view of how to learn from history - create
theories, build models, limit analysis to macro level generalities, claim
details of huge numbers of facts are too much.
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Chapter I - Theory and History
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Chapter II - Custom and Command
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Chapter III - The Rise of the Market
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Chapter IV - City States and Colonies
The author uses the typical modern language - and belief - that anient cities
were 'states' rather than societies orcommunities. The concept termed the
'state' only was developed in Renaisance Europe to take the place of 'the Great
Chain of Being' as the source of legitimacy for rulers.
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Chapter V - Money, Law, and Credit The chapter is a complete mixup of
the origin and history of money of which credit has always been a major
component, not something separate.
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Chapter VI - The Finances of the Sovereign
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Chapter VII - The Mercantilization of Agriculture
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Chapter VIII - The Labour Market
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Chapter IX - The Industrial Revolution
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Chapter X - Conclusion
I do not see any connection between the author's comments - expression of ideas
- in this final chapter and any of the ideas he advances in the previous
chapters.
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