Graeme Donald Snooks - The Laws of History (Routledge Studies in History of Economics)

First published 1998
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1998 Graeme Donald Snooks

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Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data
Snooks, G.D. (Graeme Donald)
The laws of history/Graeme Donald Snooks.
1. Economic history. 2. Statics and dynamics (Social sciences).
3. Social evolution. 4. Historicism. I. Title.
HC21.S643 1998 97-51681
330.09-dc21 CIP

ISBN 0-415-19050-9

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Whatsoever things are objects of sight, hearing, and experiencethese things I hold in higher esteem.

(Heraclitus, early fifth century BC)

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TO LOMA GRAHAM

WHO INSPIRED THIS BOOK

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