History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)

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Recorded history is a finely-woven magic fabric of intricate lies about events predating the sixteenth century. There is not a single piece of evidence that can be reliably and independently traced back earlier than the eleventh century. This book details events that are substantiated by hard facts and logic, and validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources.

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Calculations are only as good as your numbers.......2007-08-03

Yes, we can all agree that mainstream history is nearly 100% BS due to politics, economics, ego, problems with dating techniques, and various conspiracies. Agreed. But, I've been researching the distinct possibility that human history (in terms of civilizations) are much more ancient than we've been told, so coming across this book was very interesting to me. I wondered how Fomenko could be wrong (if at all) because he is very persuasive in his presentations. Then it dawned on me. If at previous times in prehistory, due to the various catastrophies that are well documented (comets, asteroids, planetary disruptions, plasma discharge, pole reversals, etc) the Earth was in a different position in relation to the sun, different tilt on its axis, different orbit, different rotation (in terms of velocity and DIRECTION), and the continents were in different positions, then would this not cause the ancients to see the sky (constellations) differently? In other words, is Fomenko making erronious assumptions about the physics of the Earth in pre-history, which then corrupt his data with regards to dating the relevant astrology? The last event to seriously disrupt our planet occured roughly 3500 years ago, according to other good researchers, so is it possible Fomenko has been confused by this? The vastly different physics of our planet in the not so distant past may explain this confusion, which is not to say the "mainstream" version of history is correct; on the contrary. I am not an expert in these fields, but wanted to see if this idea could spark discussion.

Pants on fire?.......2007-07-19

Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely mentions the poor devils. Check it with 'Search inside' feature, please. China is rarely mentioned either, in fact, Dr Fomenko is completely eurocentric. Right, his theory contradicts all mainstream schools of history, because in their actual state they are all built on blatantly erroneus chronology. You don't need a mysterious cabal (conspiracy) to falsify history, the falsification is its modus operandi. It is inherent to history(ians) to falsify (distort) events, as it is inherent to humans to boast as it is inherent to power (authority) to legimize itself by referrring to glorious past made to its own order. Dr Prof Fomenko and team have identified scores of instances of such manipulation in Russian, European, etc.. history, and delivered valid statistical proof thereof. His own 'reconstruction' is completely another story. Forget c14 as a valid method of dating. W.Libby has initially discovered a brilliant method of INDEPENDENT dating. Too bad, c14 method has become a joke after a forced marrige with dendrochronology with consensual chronological scale inbuilt. Radiocarbon method can't stand blind tests, but is so very productive as a rubberstamp.

Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09

There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.

For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.

Very Interesting.......2007-03-07

It is a good proposal and I believe it will mature into something even better in the future. I think it deserves to be read.

History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10

Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.

I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.

Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.

Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.

I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.

This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.

Real Estate Investment Trusts: Structure, Analysis and Strategy

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Dull and disappointing
An excellent overview of the REIT Industry

Real Estate Investment Trusts: Structure, Analysis and Strategy
Richard T. Garrigan , and John F.C. Parsons
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Dull and disappointing.......2005-06-11

I bought this book because I am an investor in REITS and wanted to get a deeper insight into comparing different REITs to find the best ones to invest in. I wanted to be able to read the balance sheets of several different REITs and decide which is the better investment. This book left me bored and no further forward.

The main problem is that each chapter is written by a different "expert" on a particular topic such as "Asset Allocation" or "Institutional Investing". Firstly these experts may be great money managers but they are dull writers without a jot of personality. The chapter on Tax Treatment of REITs is a lifeless regurgitation of the tax code. Worse, the editors did not steer each contributor strictly enough to avoid repetition and as a result every chapter begins with yet another review of REIT history.

There was no analysis of different REIT business models, such as trading CMOs compared with Residential or Office space. There is no analysis of how to tell good REIT managers from ordinary ones. I was optimistic about the chapter on Asset Allocation to see how REITs fit in with stock and bonds in your portfolio but again I was disapppointed. After grinding through page after page differential equations the chapter fizzled out with no mention of reccomended asset allocation ratios.

I gave the book 2 stars instead of none because the data seems to be accurate and authoritative but then so is the maintenance manual for my vacuum cleaner. A $75 book has a duty to do more than assemble boring facts in sequence.

I don't really know who this book is targeted towards. If you are going to be a junior paper pusher employed by a REIT it may give you a head start but the rest of the planet should look somewhere else.

An excellent overview of the REIT Industry.......1999-07-17

The book provided an insightful overview of the REIT industry. The book was organized by various topics relating to investing and managing a REIT. The chapters were written by practioners and academics working in the different REIT industry areas. The authors were able to provide vital insights into their areas of expertise. As a new REIT employee I learned about the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for my company and the REIT industry as a whole. some of the chapters were a bit technical in nature; particularly the analysis on historical private verses public REIT returns. Overall the book should be required reading for REIT investors and Managers as well.

The Guide to Understanding Financial Statements

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Great Buy!!! Easy to Read and Understand
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There's no mystery to understanding company financial statements Even if you have no financial or accounting background, you can read those intimidating-looking financial statements as easily as A-B-C. The second edition of The Guide to Understanding Financial Statements, by S.B. Costales and Geza Szurovy, makes all the numbers and jargon absolutely clear. In seconds you'll spot a company's strengths and weaknesses, see how its performance measures up, and have a solid basis for judging future prospects. The material is so easy to grasp, you'll know it all on first reading, Discover: what a balance sheet really reveals; the true significance of a profit and loss statement; what the six most important financial ratios are, and what each can tell you; how to tell when the numbers are favorable or not; how to spot fraud; how to discover whether the stated value of certain asests is true; much more.

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Great Buy!!! Easy to Read and Understand.......2002-06-27

This book was a big help to me. Having only a basic education in accounting, this book laid it out for me in a simple, easy-to-read manner. Definately a good buy!

A Hands Down Great Book For Beginning Managers.......2000-11-16

This book is amazing in that it gives a comprehensive,consise, and simple explanation for finicial statements. I have read many such books, yet this tops them all for its relative simplicity while still being able to get across its point. I would recommend this book to any beginning accountant, manager, or investor. This book shed light on information overlooked by unexperienced businessmen and is a great buy.

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The Development of American Agriculture: A Historical Analysis

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Business Cycles: A Theoretical, Historical, And Statistical Analysis of the Capitalist Process. 2 Vol. Set

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Innovations propagate business cycles that trend to higher equilibria.
Don't forbide this book
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Comprehensive theoretical framework

Business Cycles: A Theoretical, Historical, And Statistical Analysis of the Capitalist Process. 2 Vol. Set
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Innovations propagate business cycles that trend to higher equilibria........2005-12-04

Schumpeter published his own theory of business cycles three years after Keynes' General Theory (1936). In his review of Keynes' book in Journal of the American Statistical Association (1936) Schumpeter described Keynes' "Propensity to Consume" as nothing but a deus ex machina that is valueless if we do not understand the "mechanism" of changing situations in which consumers' expenditures fluctuate. And he adds that Keynes' "Inducement to Invest", his "Multiplier", and his "Liquidity Preference", are all an Olympus of such hypotheses, which should be replaced by concepts drawn from the economic processes that lie behind the surface phenomena. Schumpeter had his own business cycle theory describing the cycle as an interaction between the stable Walrasian system and revolutionary innovations.

In the opening chapter of his Theory of Economic Development (1934) Schumpeter says that any satisfactory explanation of economic factors must ultimately be in terms of noneconomic factors. In his book, Three Views on Method in Economics (1960), Henry W. Briefs reported a 1954 conversation with Jacob Marshak, econometrician and former Research Director for the Cowles Commission, about Schumpeter's book, Business Cycles (1939). In his review of Schumpeter's book in Journal of Political Economy (1940) Marshak criticized that he could not translate Schumpeter's business cycle theory into a complete system of equations, because he needed an equation for innovation. In subsequent personal correspondence Marshal asked Schumpeter what drives innovation, and in reply Schumpeter referred Marshak to Henri Bergson's elan vital. This is certainly a noneconomic factor!

However in his Business Cycles book, Schumpeter states that innovation is internal to the economy. It is not external like an earthquake, nor is it the same as invention. He maintains that innovations are made by the actions of entrepreneurs, who produce discontinuous structural changes in the production function, by making new combinations of input factors that increase marginal productivity. Each such change in turn propagates a damped cyclical oscillation in the levels of economic output, which trends to a stable equilibrium at a higher level. But Walrasian equilibrium is never actually achieved, because the cyclical phases of increased activity occasion further innovations, so innovations and business cycles are both endogenous.

Schumpeter's theory is closer to economic history than Keynes' theory, particularly the pre-Depression period of industrialization from which he drew his perspective. He has more to tell us about economic development than about business cycles, and his book Business Cycles is actually an extension of his earlier book, Theory of Economic Development. See my other reviews and my web site philsci.

Don't forbide this book.......2005-05-11

If you don't want to be swallowed with the Mathematics of the General Equilibrium Theory of Walras (and then Arrow and Debreu) read from chapter one to three of Schumpeter's Business Cycles.

I don't recommend the other chapters to reach a better comprehension of Schumpeter... I think it's too much out of context history. Very dificult to understand for engineers, economists and non historian people. Perhaps a best option is the reading of "The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History" by McNeill. This book has a mountains of unexpected links with Shumpeter's...but, of course, I know It wasn't Schumpeter's Aim to describe economy in a Human History Perspective.

Great.......2001-03-19

One of the best books ve read in a long time....i read it because of Mr.Greenspan....wanted to learn about how the "MAN" thinks and am glad that i read it...a must for people really interested in economics......

Comprehensive theoretical framework.......2000-01-23

A thorough description of Schumpeter's ideas and theories with practical applications. His 'creative destruction' theory is well documented and explained. A wonderful read in an argument against government intervention in industry.

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Structuring Politics: Historical Institutionalism in Comparative Analysis (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)

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Examining Historical Institutionalism

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Examining Historical Institutionalism.......2007-09-05

Thelen, Longstreth, and Steinmo examine the new institutional paradigm, particularly historical institutionalism. In order to understand new institutionalism, it is necessary to examine its origin. The formal-legal model is the old institutionalism and concentrated on the formal "administrative, legal, and political structures." It was normative in style and offered little in the way of comparative analysis; they failed to look at intermediate level variables. The old institutionalism was replaced by the behavioralist paradigm. Behavioralists concentrated on "characteristics, attitudes, and behaviors of the individuals and groups themselves" to explain political outcomes. They sought broad explanatory theories, but failed to examine the institutional "playing field" on which the actors interact. From here, the new institutionalists "narrowed down" many of the broad theories posed by the behavioralists. They began to look at the intermediate institutions which define "constellations of incentives and constraints faced by political actors in different national contexts." The new institutionalism bridges the gap between the theories of formal-legalism (narrow) and behavioralism (broad).

Thelen, Longstreth, and Steinmo discuss both rational choice institutionalism (RCI) and historical institutionalism (HI), but find the historical model more helpful. Both rational choice and historical institutionalism argue that "institutions shape political strategies and influence political outcomes" but differ in many regards. Rational choice assumes actors' preferences are based on individual utility maximization. Institutions shape the strategies used for utility maximization.

The historical institutional model argues that choices are not always made based on utility maximization, but on satisficing; "most of us, most of the time, follow socially defined rules, even when doing so may not be directly in our self-interest." Historical institutionalism contends that historical policy or previous governmental decisions, and the institutional structures that emerge out of these decisions may determine the subsequent decisions made. The process is path dependent.

Additionally, there is a social or cultural element that shapes the goals and strategies of individuals. People often resort to traditional structures, even when doing so may not be in the best interest. As such, if we want to explain choices and strategies, we must look at the context within which these choices are made. The major difference between the RCI and the HI is that HI looks at both strategies AND goals.

Differences between RCI and HI include the inductive versus deductive methodology of the models. RCI deduces its hypotheses from a broad, global assumption and is developed prior to analysis, while HI looks at more specific cases and essentially traces institutional development backwards from the case.

The benefits of historical institutionalism include its ability to explain the "variation in political behavior and outcomes over time as well as across counties, and [serves] as a framework for understanding the sources and consequences of institutional change (p. 13).

Thelen, Longstreth, and Steinmo do admit that much of the current literature on institutions fails to examine institutional change and formation. Most studies simply look at cross-national "statics;" that is, policy outcomes based on the stable institutional configurations. Thelen and Steinmo organize their collected works around three main themes: (1) explaining political change while institutional arrangements are static; (2) how and when to institutions "become the object of change;" (3) how do ideas and ideology shape and constrain policy.

Thelen, Longstreth, and Steinmo offer four sources of institutional change: (1) "broad changes in the socioeconomic or political context can produce situations in which previously latent institutions suddenly become salient, with implications for political outcomes;" (2) "changes in the socioeconomic context or political balance of power can produce a situation in which old institutions are put in the service of different ends, as new actors come into play who pursue their (new) goals though existing institutions;" (3) "exogenous changes can produce a shift in the goals and strategies being pursued within existing institutions - that is, changes in outcomes as old actors adopt new goals within the old institutions;"(4) "political actors adjust their strategies to accommodate change in the institutional themselves. This can occur in moments of dramatic change (institutional breakdown or institutional formation of the sort that Krasner's model of punctuated equilibrium highlights), but it can also be the result of more piecemeal change resulting from specific political battles or ongoing strategic maneuvering within institutional constraints."

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Bimetallism: An Economic and Historical Analysis (Studies in Macroeconomic History)

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