The Discovery of First Principles

Edward J. Dodson

[Volume 1 - 2002]

• Title Page
• Contents
• Forward
• Introduction

• Chapter 1:
  More Than Economics
• Chapter 2:
  The Search for Absolute Knowledge
• Chapter 3:
  The Rise of Civilization
• Chapter 4:
  The Long Night of Medieval Adjustment
• Chapter 5:
  Fundamentals and First Principles
• Chapter 6:
  From Warrior-Chieftains to Renaissance Kings
• Chapter 7:
  Civilizations Under Siege: The European Conquest of the Americas
• Chapter 8:
  Core Power and Peripheral States
• Chapter 9:
  Science, Philosophy and Power
• Chapter 10:
  The Rise of Political Economy and Fall of Mercantilism
• Chapter 11:
  Law and Lawlessness: Revolutions in the Age of Reason
• Chapter 12:
  Thomas paine: Architect of Cooperative Individualism

• Endnotes
• Index