01-23-2017, 04:49 PM
(01-23-2017, 04:45 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: Sorry. By "how", I was hoping for details on the mechanism. Is it an issue of technological change? Social change? Institutional change?
The process is often by technological change. In the case of feudalism ending it was development of effective cannon and the matchlock that changed the logic of violence in favor of offense. The change in political structures tends to be a consequence.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises