Sitemap - 2023 - Social Science Files
Exhibit: Identity in the West’s 2nd empire
Exhibit: Roman Empire to Breakup
Type 4 Signed Sealed Disbursed
Type 4 Signed Sealed Delivered
'Just War' versus 'Primitive Pacifism'
Borders help bond and bind ... the BBB
A capitalist who fights back ...
The bourgeoisie is educated by its enemies
A Schumpeterian overture to Uruk
Welfare State Santa, the wisdom of Holman, the rape of the Israeli women
Reformat universities for the defence of civilisation
Surplus value, ‘extra something’
Standardisation in Mesopotamia
Property, Enterprise, Private-Public
Rationalism in the Neolithic Interlude
Temple directors were Accountants not Priests
Nine hypotheses for 6000-1800 BC
Analysis: Before administration
Exhibit: Central functions, Mesopotamia
Exhibit: Why Write? to administer
Assumptions: Administration & Organisation
Exhibit: Hunter-gatherers Syria
Exhibit: Egypt exclusion & integration
Mesoamerica, collective action, no evidence
Economic Compulsions, city states
6000 years of Patrimonial States: Then, Now
When Rome's system falls apart: the repersonalisation
The double-ethic in transitions to market
The big transition: custom-to-convention-to-law
Social science of rules of the game for skat law
Two Consuls and a Client (three men in a boat)
An uncontrolled Administrative State throws the separation of powers out of kilter
Rome and participatory differentiation
Were the powers separated in Rome?
My illustrated theory of Political Pi π
A Society of Three? Archaic pros and cons of remaining small..
Michael Mendle, Sovereignty and the Separation of Powers on the Eve of the English Civil War
England's Seventeenth Century Difficulty of Double Contingency
An Overview of Past and Future Code Praxis, and England's role
'Code' made concrete alongside Rationality, Governance, and Social Order
Beginnings — The Individual Differentiation and the Smallest Society, by Michael G. Heller
Part 2 of A Crisis in the Neolithic, by Robin Dunbar [Monotheism and the Axial Age]
Automated Discretion in public bureaucracies, by Zouridis, van Eck, and Bovens [AI Why, why not]
Part 1 of A Crisis in the Neolithic, by Robin Dunbar [WHY Religion Evolved]
The Art of Discretion ... in the public service professions, by Tony Evans
The Origins of Symbolic Number, by David M. O’Shaughnessy, Edward Gibson, Steven T. Piantadosi
Language, procedures, and the non-perceptual origin of number word meanings, by David Barner
A Brain for Numbers: The Biology of the Number Instinct, by Andreas Nieder
By Michael Heller, The Asian Financial Crisis and the nature of East Asian political economies
War before Civilization, by Lawrence H. Keeley
The Social Role of Inhibition in Primates and Other Animals, by Robin Dunbar & Susanne Shultz
Democritus & the Atomists, by Anthony Kenny, Illustrated Brief History of Western Philosophy
Leibniz, by Anthony Kenny, in his Illustrated Brief History of Western Philosophy
The Palace, in The Types of Regime, by Samuel Finer [his 'History of Government'; our Part 6]
The Typology of Regimes, by Samuel Finer [his 'History of Government'; our series Part 5]
Niklas Luhmann, Differentiation, in Theory of Society
Anthony Giddens, Evolution and History, in The Constitution of Society
Robin Dunbar, Human Evolution: Why so many social layers?
Smith and Szathmary, The Major Transitions in Evolution
Method for study in a History of Society
The new 2023 Social Science Files Project
Fact: Many of the world’s leading social scientists like to read Social Science Files.
Herbert Spencer: Social Growth, and Social Structures
Herbert Spencer: The Primitive Theory of Things, and The Scope of Sociology
Herbert Spencer: Typologies of Primitive Ideas
Emile Durkheim, The Origin of the Notion of Totemic Principle, or Mana
Durkheim, The Rules of Sociological Method: key extracts from Preface, Introduction, Chapters 1-4
Schumpeter, Graeco-Roman Economics [Part 1]
Samuel Finer, History of Government, Conceptual Prologue [Parts 3 & 4]
Tim Ingold, The social relations of the hunter-gatherer band
Andrew Lintott, Constitution of Roman Republic
Max Weber, Objectivity in Social Science
B. Fagan & N. Durrani, World Prehistory: The Basics
D.L. Smith, Constitutional Royalism 1640–1649
J. Turner & A. Maryanski, Origin of Societies by Natural Selection
L. J. Reeve, Charles I Personal Rule
Capogrossi Colognesi, Law, Power, Roman Commonwealth [Part 2]
Andrew Lintott, Cicero as Evidence
Peter Brunt, Fall of the Roman Republic
Jeremy Waldron, Political Political Theory
Hansen, Athenian Democracy [Part 6]
Harriet I. Flower, Roman Republics
Mirko Canevaro, Majority Rule vs. Consensus
Hansen, Athenian Democracy [Part 5]
Valentina Arena, Libertas & Politics in the Late Roman Republic
Hansen, Athenian Democracy [Part 4]
Henrik Mouritsen, The Roman Republic
Hansen, Athenian Democracy [Part 3]
Hansen, Athenian Democracy [Part 2]
Hansen, Athenian Democracy [Part 1]
1st Anniversary of Social Science Files [11th Feb]
Elio Lo Cascio, Setting the Rules of the Game
Elio Lo Cascio, Setting the Rules of the Game
Walter Scheidel, Approaching the Roman Economy
Egbert Koops, Price Setting & Other Economic Controls in the Roman Economy
Colin Renfrew, Prehistory: The Making Of The Human Mind
Colin Renfrew, Prehistory: The Making Of The Human Mind
Colin Renfrew, Prehistory: The Making Of The Human Mind
Steven Lukes, Different cultures, different rationalities?
Marshall Sahlins, New Science of the Enchanted
Capogrossi Colognesi, Law, Power, Roman Commonwealth
Jon Elster, France, Unraveling of an Absolutist Regime
Steven Garfinkle, Ancient Near Eastern City-States
Francis Fukuyama on the War in Ukraine, Authoritarianism, and Liberal Democracy
Deirdre McCloskey, Fukuyama Was Correct
H&H Frankfort, The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man, Before Philosophy
Costambeys et al., The Carolingian world
Arif Ahmed, Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations
Jens Høyrup, Lengths, Widths, Surfaces in Old Babylonian Algebra
James C. Scott, State Simplification
David Lindberg, Beginnings of Western Science
Chris Wickham, Europe’s Long Economic Boom 950–1300
Margaret Judson, Crisis of the English Constitution
Glenn Burgess, Review of Michael Mendle, Henry Parker & the English Civil War
Bernard Crick, In Defence of Politics
Francesca Rochberg, Science & Ancient Mesopotamia
Dennis Kehoe, Land Tenure and Agricultural Regulation in Roman Law