Anderson abridged (was Re: Anderson weighs in)

Brad DeLong delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU
Mon Oct 28 19:57:07 PST 2002



>s-t-t at juno.com wrote:
>
>>Shane summarizing Anderson
>
>Thanks. Two questions: 1) why do you like poring over him so?, and
>2) did he really need 10,000 words to make those unremarkable
>observations? The gloom and windbaggery seem like two symptoms of
>one underlying pathology of mandarin detachment.
>
>Doug

_Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism_ and _Lineages of the Absolutist State_ are great books...

Brad DeLong, not usually given to excessive praise of Marxist historians...



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