The Dynamic Society: The Sources of Global Change - Hardcover

Snooks, Graeme

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415137306 ISBN 13: 9780415137300

Publisher: Routledge, 1996

Synopsis

This book discusses the nature and process of change in human society over the past two million years. The author draws on economic, historical and biological concepts to examine the driving forces of change and looks to likely developments in the future. This analysis produces some very thought-provoking and controversial conclusions.

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About the Author

Graeme Donald Snooks is the Coghlan Professor and Head of the department of Economic History at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University. He has published widely on a number of central issues in economic history and is editor of a number of prestigious book series and journals

Review

Professor Snooks has undertaken as ambitious a project as one could possibly conceive of...it is a stimulating work, and one which shows an immense amount of reading, and an organization of the material into an interesting and highly speculative, but fascinating structure.
–Douglass C. North, Nobel Laureate in Economics

Graeme Snooks' lates book is a tour de force of global economic history...The book presents a brlliant overview of the history of mankind over time, from its beginning to the present, and...introduces in a very original way the impact of individual freedom and creativity into the structural characteristics of historical development. Many new insights can be found in the book: they are often challenging, sometimes even provocative, but they are always interesting and very stimulating.
–Baron herman Van der Wee, Past President of the International Economic History Association

Graeme Snooks draws upon economic, historical and biological ideas and concepts to present a fascinating description of the patterns of development of mankind and, based on this examination of the past, to provide predictions for the future.The Dynamic Society covers much time and space with a wide-ranging intellectual analysis, and is a most unusually stimulating and thought-provoking read.
–Stanley L. Engerman, Professor of Economics and History, University of Rochester

The author has a number of important and controversial points to make...The most interesting parts of the book are those where the author uses various rhetorical devices to explain the major components of his model by confronting it with a remarkable variety of empirical evidence...the book qualifies as intellectually stimulating and a downright good read.
–Mark Casson, Professor of Economics, University of Reading

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0415137306
• ISBN 13: 9780415137300
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 512