L_de_Lioncourt schrieb am 05.08.2017 19:07:
...für das ein Anderer den Pulitzer 1998 gekriegt hat:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel
Diamond touches on why the dominant powers of the last 500 years have been West European rather than East Asian (especially Chinese). The Asian areas in which big civilizations arose had geographical features conducive to the formation of large, stable, isolated empires which faced no external pressure to change which led to stagnation. Europe's many natural barriers allowed the development of competing nation-states. Such competition forced the European nations to encourage innovation and avoid technological stagnation.
Eigentlich eine Allgemeine Theorie, von der Philip Hoffmans Ansatz ein Spezialfall ist.