[Publius]

Years ago I ran across a book by a Frenchman, translated into English, that explained all this. I believe it had a generic title like "The Middle Ages", but it's been so long I can't remember.

However, James Dale Davidson wrote two books that cover a lot of economic history and put a lot of this in perspective. One is The Great Reckoning, and the other is The Sovereign Individual.

[Travis McGee]

I have a big paperback (VERY BIG) version of The Great Reckoning on my bookshelf, very much underlined and highlighted. I pull it down very often. He was 20 years ahead on his “reckoning” of the timeline, he missed a few bubbles, but it’s all coming into focus now. Great book.