“The most important causes of change are not to be found in political manifestos or in the pronouncements of dead economists, but in the hidden factors that alter the boundaries where power is exercised. Often, subtle changes in climate, topography,… — James Dale Davidson Copy Share Image
“The basic causes of change are precisely those that are not subject to conscious control.” — James Dale Davidson Copy Share Image
“Topographic conditions were the foundation of Greek democracy, just as those of a different kind gave rise to the Oriental despotisms of Egypt and… — James Dale Davidson Copy Share Image
“When the payoff for organizing violence at a large scale tumbles, the payoff from violence at a smaller scale is likely to jump. Violence… — James Dale Davidson Copy Share Image
“The more apparent it is that a system is nearing an end, the more reluctant people will be to adhere to its laws.” — James Dale Davidson Copy Share Image
Place 5 percent to 10 percent of your total assets in gold bullion and selected gold and silver coins. No one knows with certainty… — James Dale Davidson Copy Share Image
“Faster than all but a few now imagine, microprocessing will subvert and destroy the nation-state, creating new forms of social organization in the process.” — James Dale Davidson Copy Share Image
“Other things being equal, the more widely dispersed key technologies are, the more widely dispersed power will be, and the smaller the optimum scale… — James Dale Davidson Copy Share Image
America today has insufficient savings to finance both crucial investment and its consumption of imports. — James Dale Davidson Copy Share Image
“Cultures are not matters of taste but systems of adaptation to specific circumstances that may prove irrelevant or even counterproductive in other settings.” — James Dale Davidson Copy Share Image
“Market forces, not political majorities, will compel societies to reconfigure themselves in ways that public opinion will neither comprehend nor welcome.” — James Dale Davidson Copy Share Image
“This tended to increase the size of societies because contests of violence more often than not were won by the larger group.” — James Dale Davidson Copy Share Image
“Governments will ultimately have little choice but to treat populations in territories they serve more like customers, and less in the easy that organized… — James Dale Davidson Copy Share Image
