Del carácter tautológico de algunas teorías -o de como no ver la paja en el propio ojo
La siguiente cita servirá como muestra -porque hay muchas que básicamente insisten en el mismo punto: ‘Ultimately, it is just too easy to ‘explain’ historical phenomena by positing diferences in the wat people saw the world -by whatever variant of neo-Confucianism was in the air, or whatever the level of antimarket prejudice, imperial reverence, or patriarchal deference. Too often, ideology, tastes, and culture are things we fail to measure independently of the phenomena we hope to explain. Too often, the result is simply circularity’ (J. Mark Ramseyer, Odd Markets in Japanese History, Cambridge University Press, 1996, página 8). Hasta aquí, … Siga leyendo