"Hence the United States' world leadership in GNP (both absolute and per capita) must be attributed to geographical peculiarities that cannot simply be imitated by other countries. This fact has often been lost in discussions of economic development that attribute the observed world patterns to social organization or culture, and which hold out the United States as a stage through which all societies will pass. In explanations of current American social structure, it is important to see that the high level of economic productivity is determined by factors other than the output of the educational system or by the shape of the modern professions; indeed, these appear primarily to be luxuries that a resource-rich society has been unusually able to afford. Thus introducing geographical peculiarities into our view of an economy enables us to see the direction of causality more clearly." Collins, The Credential Society, p. 77."
For me, the questions are more illuminating than Collins' answers:
Tuesday, July 31, 2018
CHINA'S QUESTIONS FOR RANDALL COLLINS
THURSDAY, JULY 19, 2018
These were the Chinese "Newspaper" (Chinese Government) questions for Randall Collins' interview with the newspaper.For me, the questions are more illuminating than Collins' answers:
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