Is ancient China included as being part of the west? A quick check of
some basic history of ancient china seems to suggest that what I would
consider to be the organisation of human labor was present going right
back to the very earliest dynasties.
However, I would tend to think that so many things have now changed so
much, that we cannot simply assume that any economic system that was
appropriate in the past is necessarily right for the future.
Nigel
On 06/10/2012 10:44, Guenter Wildgruber wrote:
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Well.
I'd like to comment on this a bit:
1) any economic system is embedded in a system of societal beliefs -- how the
world works --
2) a) ...human labor... is a western abstraction
Sorry for being so picky.
Guenter
