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PS Sorry I have not been in touch lately. Still working on my short book. Reading Earle "Bronze Age Economics" and Greenfeld "The Spirit of Capitalism" to get a feeling of how econimics plays into a nation's choice of political insitutions.
Have you read The Emergence of Civilization by Maisels or The Great Wave by Fischer? They both get into that, albeit it with a longue duree time horizon.

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How did your presentation go?
Pretty good on the whole, but I wish we had had more of an opportunity to chat over beers .