v. 1. History of linguistics.--v. 2. Contemporary linguistics.

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This paper is the most complete presentation of my views on deterministic causation. It develops the deterministic theory in perfect parallel to my theory of probabilistic causation and thus unites the two aspects. It also argues that the theory presented is superior to all regularity and all counterfactual theories of causation.

Globalization, today's most significant economic phenomenon, has as many detractors as defenders, and has recently become the focus of protests by students, anarchists and organized labor. Although many of its detractors have economic axes to grind, many others object to globalization on social, political and religious grounds.1 Thus, it might be well to go back to some of the very early—mythical, philosophical, and Biblical—sources of economic and political thinking to understand how religion played a part in the political taming of (...) economic competition. Hesiod's Economic Theology Competition, one of the governing principles of economics, is often seen as a major…. (shrink)