Post #200595 by Thomas on Tue, Nov 29, 2005 12:10 PM

Agreed, the general outlines and causes of the decline and "collapse" have been pretty well understood for quite a while. I think the attraction here is the connecting of it to a theoretical framework which helps explain it as well as, and in relation to, other crises with which it bears some commonalities. (Then again, I haven't read the book yet, so am kind of improvising a bit here.)