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Initial Conditions, General Laws, Path Dependence, and Explanation in Historical Sociology
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Much of the training of the modern economist tends to weaken the trainee's natural, intuitive understanding of historical causation, so that some remedial work is required in addressing an audience, some of whose members' advanced education will have left them incapacitated in this particular way. (Paul A. David)
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- Authors
- Goldstone, J. A.
- Venue
- American Journal of Sociology
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 1998-11
- Volume
- 104
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 829-845
- ISSN
- 0002-9602 (ISSN-L)
- 1537-5390
- OpenAlex
- W2058492971
- Cited by
- 304
- References
- 3
- FWCI
- 11.49
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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