First, I would like to thank all of you who have responded to my original
posting. It is a tribute to the high academic and intellectual integrity
of the PEWS section and the WSN that I have been seriously read and
responded to despite my inexperience and lack of credentials.
Second, in response to the criticisms of my reading of (what is for me)
history and my attempts to treat it nomothtically, I would like to present
a testable (rejectable) model of long cycles to the readers of this list.
I will be away this weekend, but I should be able to write up my model
before the July 4 holiday. I hope that it will be as "well"-received as
have been my recent postings.
Once again, thank you all for your nterest and critcisms.
Yours,
Salvatore Babones
Department of Sociology
Johns Hopkins University
(Ph.D. expected Spring '98)