06-11-2009, 03:15 AM
Hi,
Or maybe it was Gavrilo Princip, without whom there would have been no WW I, thus no WW II.
Or we can blame it on Pope Leo III for crowning Charlemagne and starting the whole Holy Roman Empire nonsense.
Actually, the best statement made so far in this thread is yours; "And counterfactuals are hard to argue with: who really knows what would have happened had alternate policies been pursued?" This whole topic is nothing more than a dispute about economic theories with all the usual suspects taking on the usual sides. Me? I'd rather read Turtledove.;)
Although I must say that I find it humorous that kandrathe argues a time delay between economic causes and events. It isn't that I don't think that such a delay exists, it's that I don't think the delay is so variable as kandrathe makes it out to be. And so coincidentally variable that it supports all his claims.
Me, I'm retreating back to the middle. Freezing on one side, burning on the other, on the average, it's just right. :whistling:
--Pete
Quote: . . . Hitler.Godwin!!!!! j/k:)
Or maybe it was Gavrilo Princip, without whom there would have been no WW I, thus no WW II.
Or we can blame it on Pope Leo III for crowning Charlemagne and starting the whole Holy Roman Empire nonsense.
Actually, the best statement made so far in this thread is yours; "And counterfactuals are hard to argue with: who really knows what would have happened had alternate policies been pursued?" This whole topic is nothing more than a dispute about economic theories with all the usual suspects taking on the usual sides. Me? I'd rather read Turtledove.;)
Although I must say that I find it humorous that kandrathe argues a time delay between economic causes and events. It isn't that I don't think that such a delay exists, it's that I don't think the delay is so variable as kandrathe makes it out to be. And so coincidentally variable that it supports all his claims.
Me, I'm retreating back to the middle. Freezing on one side, burning on the other, on the average, it's just right. :whistling:
--Pete
How big was the aquarium in Noah's ark?