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Aristotle, Politics [Aristotle series ends]
Christopher Rowe, Nature of the 'Politics' [penultimate of the Aristotle series]
Roger Scruton, 'Aristotle' in The Dictionary of Political Thought [end of year Aristotle series]
Wilbur Knorr, Incommensurable Magnitudes and Early Greek Geometry [end of year Aristotle series]
Christopher Rowe, Aristotelian Constitutions [end of year Aristotle series]
Arthur M. Melzer, Philosophy Between the Lines [end of year Aristotle series]
David Sedley, Creationism & Its Critics in Antiquity [end of year Aristotle series]
Quentin Skinner, Hobbes & Republican Liberty [What Aristotle taught Hobbes]
Aristotle, Book V Nicomachean Ethics [ratios, proportionality, commensurability, contraries]
Reviel Netz, New History of Greek Mathematics [end of year Aristotle series]
Jonathan Lear’s book Aristotle: The Desire to Understand [end of year Aristotle series]
Aristotle, Book VI Nicomachean Ethics [calculation of means to make the common good]
Malcolm Schofield, Aristotle's rational choice model
Melissa Lane, Birth of Politics: Eight Greek & Roman Political Ideas [end of year Aristotle series]
David Sedley, Companion to Greek and Roman Philosophy [end of year Aristotle series]
Mark Edward Lewis, Construction of Space in Early China
J. J. Pollitt, Art & Experience in Classical Greece
Russell Hardin, Why a Constitution?
Claude Nicolet, Space, Geography, Politics Early Roman Empire
James M. Buchanan, Three Amendments: Responsibility, Generality, and Natural Liberty
Eric A. Posner, The Constitution of the Roman Republic
David Ibbetson, The 'Obligation' in Roman Law and Society
Use of Documents in Pharaonic Egypt, by Christopher Eyre
Ptolemaic Governance, by Joseph G. Manning
Moreno García, Managing Resources in Ancient Egypt
[From] Elements of Natural Law, by Leibniz
Talcott Parsons, Societies: Evolutionary Perspectives
Mark Goldie, Unacknowledged Republic of Officeholding in Early Modern England
The Postscript, by H.L.A. Hart
Ronald Dworkin, Impersonal-Personal Preferences for Equality of Welfare [false dichotomy]
Sovereign Virtue: Theory & Practice of Equality, by Ronald Dworkin
Jonathan Haidt, Why it is now harder to find the truth in universities
Government without Bureaucracy in the Roman Empire, by Peter Garnsey & Richard Saller
Discretion in the Policy Process, by Peter Hupe and Michael Hill
Historical Inevitability [is not] The Proper Study of Mankind, by Isaiah Berlin
Sociological Theory Since The War, by Jeffrey Alexander
Ryan Abbott, The Reasonable Robot
Making Social Spending Work, by Peter H. Lindert
Non-State Law: Early Yemen and Perpetual Peace, by Paul Dresch
The Concept of Obligation, by H.L.A. Hart
4. Origins of 'Checks & Balances' in System and Mechanism
Wittgenstein on Rules, by Saul A. Kripke on rule-checking 'community'
Laws and Morals, by H.L.A. Hart
The Invention of the State, by Fredric L. Cheyette
Growth of Law in Medieval Russia, by Daniel Kaiser
The code of Hospitality, by Julian Pitt-Rivers
The code of Honour, by Julian Pitt-Rivers
The Emergence of Rus 750-1200, by Franklin & Shepard
Charles Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle
Reshaping western Europe 1000–1150, by Chris Wickham
[Central Banks 3] Michael Heller, Project Syndicate 2013
[Central Banks 2] Ben Bernanke Wins a Nobel, in Theory: WSJ Editorial
[Central Banks 1] Claudio Borio, The unconventional became conventional, 2020 speech
Governing Elizabethan England, by Norman Jones
China Cambridge Economic History 2022, ’Ideology & Contours of Economic Change’
Samuel Finer, The History of Government, Conceptual Prologue [Part 2]
Samuel Finer, The History of Government, Conceptual Prologue [Part 1]
Inca Political Power, by Kevin Lane [2022]
The Shining Path, by Orin Starn and Miguel La Serna
Growth: Social and Political Organizations, 1000 BCE–1350 CE, by Ian Morris
A New History of Greek Mathematics, by Reviel Netz [2022]
Topography of Remembrance, collective memory in Mesopotamia, by Gerdien Jonker
'Social Memory', by Chris Wickham & James Fentress
Polybius on the natural cycle of political systems
What We Think and How We Came to Think It, by Felipe Fernández-Armesto
What is Meant by the Word ‘King’, by Thomas Aquinas
Crossing the Pleistocene Human Threshold [from ‘homeless’ to ‘home base’ caves]
From Memory to Written Record, England 1066-1307, by M.T. Clanchy
Why England was & is not Republican, Johann Sommerville explains
Theory of Society, from history to evolution with definition, by Niklas Luhmann
Clifford Ando on Sovereignty and Territoriality in Republican Rome
F.A. Hayek on abstract/Aristotelian Origins of Rule of Law
Kinch Hoekstra on ancient Greek concepts for democracy as tyranny
Wednesday Bonus: The Tools of Government, by Christopher C. Hood
Teleological-evolutionary Kant: Critique of the Power of Judgment
Monday bonus: Jean De Groot, Mechanics in the Fourth Century BC
3. Origins of 'Checks & Balances' in System and Mechanism
Otto Mayr on Feedback Systems, definitions & origins
Melissa Lane, Introduction to Aristotle’s Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens
Political-religious evolutions 800-1000 CE: in ‘Medieval Europe’, by Chris Wickham
Politics in the Roman Republic [2], by Henrik Mouritsen
Politics in the Roman Republic [1], by Henrik Mouritsen
Roman Political Assemblies, by Tim Cornell
Methods, Models, and Historiography, by Martin Jehne
Constitution of the Roman Republic, by John A. North
Democracy: A Life, by Paul Cartledge
Ancient Greek City-States, by Mogens Herman Hansen
Paul Cartledge, Origins of Democracy in Greece
Joachim Whaley, Germany and the Holy Roman Empire
Peter H. Wilson, Rome to Empire, peace & power
Josiah Ober, Rise and Fall of Classical Greece
Keith Hopkins, Economic Growth of the Roman Empire
Keith Hopkins, Political Economy of the Roman Empire
Chris Wickham, Rome's western successors 500–750
Henry St John Bolingbroke, Dissertation upon Parties
James S. Hart, Rule of Law 1603-1660
Peter H. Wilson, History of The Holy Roman Empire
Robert L. Kelly, The Behavioral Ecology of Foragers
Mary Douglas, Purity and Danger
Wittgenstein vs J.G. Frazer in recent anthropology
The Golden Bough by J.G. Frazer
René Girard, Violence and the Sacred
Ludwig Wittgenstein, The Blue Book
Christopher Kelly, Ruling the Later Roman Empire
Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading
Walter Scheidel, The Origins of the Roman Empire
John Baker, Introduction to English Legal History
Rosamond McKitterick on Europe’s 8th-9th century Carolingian foundations
Bruce G. Trigger 'Understanding Early Civilizations'
Chris Wickham on Medieval Europe
Thomas N. Bisson, The Crisis of the 12th Century, the Origins of Government
Marc Bloch on the Feudal Society
Sociology's known-unknowns: biology, emotion, instinct, selection
The main sources of 'unity' in Greek city-states
Farming Societies and the exceptionalism of city states, recorded history
Governance in Egypt, 3000-1500 BC
Nature and the Limits of the City in Early Modern Natural Law
2. Origins of 'Checks & Balances' in System and Mechanism
1. Origins of 'Checks & Balances' in System and Mechanism
Machiavelli: his political realism should by now be 'absorbed' in social science
A Synthesis of ‘Society’, including Chinese society
What is Society? Too soon to know?
'The Governance of England', Why one king reigns 'royally', and another 'politically'
Survival skills, inheritance, hierarchy, justice, community, boundaries, & more ...
Dichotomous Divisions/Distinctions [the '2D' codified vision of society]
Weak Ties & Families, supercharged by emotions, big brains, language, culture
Ideological Party & Play American Economics Association 2022
Trends in Enforcement of Ideologies
Earliest Social Ecology China [ecosystems, groups, stratification]
[Part 9 Permanently Totalitarian] China History Governance
[Part 8 Socio-Political Economy] China Governance History
[Part 7 Bureaucracy vs Aristocracy] China Governance History
[Part 6 Confucian State] China Governance History
[Part 5 Centrifugal-Centripetal] China Governance History
[Part 4 Contradictions of Center] China Governance History
[Part 3 Continuity vs Divergence] China Governance History
[Part 2 Borderlands] China Governance History
[Part 1 Overview] China's Governance History
China's Bad Dreams [New Series]
Platinum Edition: Disempowering Monarchy, England’s Exceptionalism
To & fro of a priori cognition and actual experience
Procedural Interest in the Taylor Rule
High-Achiever Chiefs, Three Power Sources
Procedural interest motivated legitimacy in China
Ancient Egypt invented Culture to maintain Order
Early States of Insular Southeast Asia
Establishing Modus Vivendi with a new political ancient history paradigm
Mesoamerica's Early Economy & Governance
Farmers, Evolution, Property Rights
Early Cities Were Political, Modern Cities are Economic
Exceptional Individuals in a Well-Governed Capitalism
Need nudge for World Data Organization on WTO model?
In Praise of Elite Individuals, Rebels, Crisis-Induced Change
Socio-Political indicators via Archeological Gini
Claims about the Origin of 'Inequality' in Clan, Ritual, Prestige
Communal & Associative Relations
Personal Rule Model with Market-Derived Bureaucracy Forms
'Order and Disorder', Early Mesopotamia
'Compulsory Cooperation' is Pre-Modern Power
Political-Military-Ideological Power of Assyrian Empire
Organization & Economic Power of Assyrian Empire
Empires in Western Asia after 2000 BCE
Runciman on Empire’s improbable perpetuity
The Birth of Expansionist Patrimonialism [Mesopotamia]
States-as-Empires From Bronze Age to Iron Age
“The difficulty in social science is to ask the right question”
Mesopotamia’s Separations & Centralizations of Power
Rules of Neighborhood via Divisions of Labor, Scarcity, Need
Tribal, Paleolithic, Agrarian revolutionary innovators
Systemic Inter-State Fragmentation Enabled the European Miracle
Center and Periphery, cities, states, empires
Alternatively: respecify (rather than eliminate) means-to-ends teleology and stages ...
Chiefly the parts about Chiefdoms: how prehistoric peoples controlled power
Subsystems of Society ‘Interpenetrate’ to function
The 'Articulation' of Modes of Production
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, The Science of The Good for humans in their cities
The Evolutionary Law of Differentiation
Barbarian Peripheries, Secondary Primitivism, and their Golden Ages
If a State is an Empire, adjust your concepts
On demonstrating the truth of law, right, justice
Depersonalized Charisma in Institutional History
New Theory of Charisma Causality in Domination
Machiavellian prototypical political propensities
Men with Women [2] Power & Control
Men With Women [1] Hierarchy & Violence
Biological Aspects of Social Order
First Complex Social Cognition, dates & indicators
A Discussion: The 1641 Revolution
Separation of Powers science, doctrine, practice
Prehistory and the Forager proxy wars
Discretion is Science for Discerning Law
Impersonal Rules vs Discretion and Kadi Justice
17th century Electoral Dynamism in England
Graeber & Wengrow in defiance of Stages & Fairy Tales
#37 Gellner’s Fundamental Structure of History
#36 Ifrah's claims about 20th century simple societies and small numbers
#35 Menninger: Man, woman, many … When Society was Three
#34 Durkheim on Society’s need for Impersonal Concepts
#33 Elster & Landemore on the philosophy of social science
#32 Kant’s Anthropology From a Pragmatic Point of View
#31 Swedberg on how to theorize in the social sciences
#30 Burgess on the Duplex Theory of Kingship
#29 Alexander introduces the Theoretical Logic in Sociology
#28 Lukes on the Social Determination of Truth
#27 Luhmann on Values being irreconcilable with truth, reality, science
#26 Bertrand Russell on Social Science, Artificial Society, Russia, World Government
#25 Hexter on the Historian’s personal Second Record
#24 Maitland on the science of Jurisprudence
#23 Dennis Wrong on the Problem of Order in Interaction
#22 Schumpeter on economics & sociology as sciences, save for the obstacle of ideology
#21 The Human Relations Area Files, not so ‘fuddy-duddy’ after all: [Part 2]
#20 The Human Relations Area Files, not so ‘fuddy-duddy’ after all [Part 1]
#19 Nasser Behnegar in defence of Leo Strauss’s critique of social science
#18 Comte on the relationship between Order, Progress and Social Science
#17 Leibniz on the Art of Discovery in a distinction between synthesis and analysis
#16 Gellner on the ease with which modern society maintains a coercive order
# 15 Weber on the scientific conception of The State, and other concepts
#14 Public Choice theory's Generality Principle for law and politics
#13 Historical materialism is the social scientific core of Marxist theory
#12 Darwin on Science, the Struggle for Existence, Competition, and Vaccination Value
#11 Coleman on the new constructivist social science
#10 Schumpeter and Aristotle on Teleology
#9 Leibniz to artificial intelligence to technology
#8 Condorcet on the future progress of the human mind
#7 Pareto’s advice on how to study multidisciplinary social science
#6 Everyone with a business interest is a student of social science, said Spencer
#5 Herbert Spencer on War and The Survival of the Fittest
#3 Wootton, Mayr, David Hume, Adam Smith on Feedback Machines and Social Science