Please read: Why the West rule------for now. by Ian Morris.-------- Not invade,not depress, not colonized, but find the way to use natural energy in big scale, made the index of human civilization increase from 4 to 1000 in 200 years. ( Market economics, private property, entrepreneurs, no dictation, emerged into modernization,.....)
@@linxinwei Good idea!陳老師的思想和文化人類學家可謂一脈相承。馬文對人性論較為膚淺,其所提出的4點更像是霍布斯和亞當斯密的混合體,強行用經濟學來研究人類学。 例如他花了不少篇幅去討論西方為何吃牛而不吃豬,理由是養豬的價錢太貴。聽來就有點荒謬。 從現代醫學來看,豬有豬肉條蟲、豬型鏈球菌、豬型流感…古以色列人發現之後通過宗教來頒布這消息,在信教者中限制了豬肉的食用。