“The difficulty in social science is to ask the right question”
In 1971 Jean Baechler tried to explain the origins of capitalism
Jean Baechler wrote:
[Encouragement for us all on p. 59 “once the question is constructed the answer is, in general, easy to obtain. In fact, my work from this point on will be relatively easy”. He surely deceived himself, of course, but useful observations are made en route]
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The Source:
Jean Baechler, Origins of Capitalism, originally published as Les Origines du Capitalisme, Editions Gallimard, Paris 1971, translated by Barry Cooper, Basil Blackwell 1975 [pp. 42-50, 51, 56-59]
Evolutions of social order from the earliest humans to the present day and future machine age.