Clarity in the Face of Immense World-System Complexity and Crisis
Journal Title: Social Evolution & History - Year 2017, Vol 16, Issue 2
Abstract
A Review of ‘Economic Crises, Cycles and the Global Periphery’ by Leonid Grinin, Andrey Korotayev, and Arno Tausch. – Springer, 2016.
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Antony Harper
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