Economic Convergence and Evolution: ‘These Things Too Shall Pass Away’

Peter Ham
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Peter Ham: University of Leiden

Chapter 5 in Western Doctrines on East-West Trade, 1992, pp 70-80 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract However great and intense conflicts may be, or seem to be, at a particular moment, they will probably be solved one way or the other. Religious wars pestered Europe only two or three centuries ago, while theological differences do not play an important role in European high politics at the moment.1 What is more, war among Western democracies is hardly imaginable nowadays.2 Looking at these historical changes, one is reminded of the tale of an ancient monarch who asked his wise men to present him with an aphorism which would be applicable to all possible occasions. His request was met with one particular sentence: ‘These things too shall pass away.’

Keywords: Foreign Trade; Economic Order; Communist Country; Economic Convergence; Soviet Society (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1992
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-12610-1_6

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