Long Cycles: Prosperity and War in the Modern Age
Joshua S. Goldstein
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988.
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Contents, Preface
1. World System and World Views
PART ONE Debates
2. The Long Wave Debate 1 : Roots
3. The Long Wave Debate 2: The Current Debate
4. The Long Wave Debate 3: Empirical Arguments
5. The War/Hegemony Debate 1: Roots
6. The War/Hegemony Debate 2: The Current Debate
7. Knowledge Cumulation in the Long Cycle Field
PART TWO Analysis
8. Defining Long Cycles: Epistemology and Methodology
9. Data Analysis 1: Prices
10. Data Analysis 2: Real Economic Variables
11. Data Analysis 3: War
12. Toward a Theory of Long Waves
PART THREE History
13. Continuity and Change: 1495 to 1648
14. Continuity and Change: Since 1648
15 . The Past and the Future
Data Appendices
References
Index
Related article: 1989 conference paper at International Economic Association, Copenhagen (pub. 1991)
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