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Wednesday, August 3, 2016
RE PAX MONGOLICA ENLIGHTENED MONGOL DESPOTS ECONOMISTS' FANTASY PAX SINICA
If you read Power And Plenty, and other similar accounts of the so called Pax Mongolica, you get the impression of benevolent enlightened helpful friendly Mongol Khans, the kind of people that the Chinese now ostensibly are becoming, joining the commonwealth of enlightened nations in a spirit of hope and global unity. They want to make The South China Sea, and elsewhere in Asia, Eurasia, and Africa, safe for all of us to trade freely and openly. Call it The Pax Sinica.
Friday, July 14, 2017
RE JOSEPH TAINTER I HAVE TO GLANCE AT THIS
"Mediterraneans were better off after the collapse of the Western Empire..." That seems to be one theme....
This is hard to envision.
Sounds rather like some globalist economists recently claiming that the whole world was better off under Genghis Khan's Pax Mongolica.
If you don't expect very much at all, if anything, from the different compartmentalized social sciences, anthropology, economics, history, political science, English (Not technically a social science, but one branch of it now often called journalism, a faux social science) sociology, etc., then you are not too disappointed, later.
The Pax Mongolica is a classic example of what I would have expected from economists, and so I was able to cheerfully take it in stride as just another of the countless foibles of the social sciences....
If you don't expect very much at all, if anything, from the different compartmentalized social sciences, anthropology, economics, history, political science, English (Not technically a social science, but one branch of it now often called journalism, a faux social science) sociology, etc., then you are not too disappointed, later.
The Pax Mongolica is a classic example of what I would have expected from economists, and so I was able to cheerfully take it in stride as just another of the countless foibles of the social sciences....
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