CRIM 2650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Path Dependence, Labour Power, Individualism
20 Jan 2016
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Human history up to our own present date has never experienced rapid and radical change in comparison to the late 1700s on to the early 1900s. It changed the landscape of what would soon become modern society. It is literally impossible to separate institutions from ideas. It is impossible to separate the development of the modern state from its founding principles: ideas are path dependent: if you see an idea through it has very definite answers to particular questions. It is difficult to ignore the implications of particular point. All men regard the usbor, all men are created equally. It was written in a period where the practice of slavery was justified. The development of modern rights begins with this concept and yet it takes decades to work out its full implications because politics and life gets in the way.
