David Landes is professor emeritus of economics and retired professor of history at Harvard University. He is the author of Revolution in Time, The Unbound Prometheus, and The Wealth and Poverty of Nations. Landes earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1953 and his A.B. from City College of New York in 1942. Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ... Jump to: navigation, search This article needs to be wikified. ... The Wealth and Poverty of Nations is a book by David Landes, currently Emeritus Professor of Economics and former Coolidge Professor of History at Harvard University. ...
DavidLandes subscreve as teses de Max Weber quanto ao papel da Reforma Protestante e em particular do calvinismo no surgimento do capitalismo e mostra factos empíricos e argumentos teóricos que as sustentam.
Landes subscreve neste livro as teses de Max Weber em A ética protestante e o espírito do capitalismo, apresentando evidência histórica daquilo que Weber tinha teorizado numa perspectiva sociológica da teologia
DavidLandes is a retired Harvard professor aiming squarely at an issue we Maoists see underlying what we call the "principal contradiction" between oppressor nations and oppressed nations.
Landes does not tell us whether other societies were ahead in their forest- chopping technology, but he only asks to be accountable for the last 1000 years of history anyway.
DavidLandes is an historian who attacks Marxism as "too simple." When he needs to use a little Marxism, he uses it, but in an explanation with several other chains of reasoning as well.