On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 20:59, Max B. Sawicky <[email protected]> wrote: > It was kind of tedious. I couldn't get through the whole thing. > Didn't encourage me to read his books. > >
Some of his stuff is pretty good, it's just when he tries to make grand predictions that he comes off like an ass. When I was reading him for my field statements--Wallerstein and the whole world system's gang--it struck me that they were often pretty ensconced in the "stopped clock" approach to predictions: if they just kept predicting the eminent demise of the entire system, eventually they might turn out to be right. s _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
