>>> cbcox at ilstu.edu 12/05/00 05:22PM >>>
kelley wrote:
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> no, i'm talking about Weber's study of the rise of capitalism. the
> conditions were, largely, there for the chinese to have been the place
> where a proto-capitalist economic organization took off, not all the
> conditions, but many. nonetheless, various places in the west took off and
> were more successful and this was about the development of accounting
> techniques, in part, that aided people in conceptualizing symbolically
> rational planning of projections based on past, present, future.
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CB: That and a new level of propensity and willingness to use deadly force and violence, state power.