Social Cycles

Discussion

Joshua Goldstein:

"Cycles of many lengths are woven into social life. Braudel (1972:892) refers to a "web of vibrations which makes up the economic world."

In existing research on all long cycles (real or imagined), the greatest interest lies in two clusters:

1) economic cycles of roughly 50 years' duration (long waves), and

(2) longer cycles of hegemony and hegemonic war."

(http://www.joshuagoldstein.com/jgcyc01.pdf)