It is not easy to tear any event out of the context of the universe in which it occurred without detaching from it some factor that influenced it.

The basis of social relationships is reciprocity: if you cooperate with others, others will cooperate with you.

Capitalism might be defined, if we wish to be scientific, as a form of economic organization motivated by the pursuit of profit within a price structure.

When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally.

I came into history from a primary concern with mathematics and science. This has been a tremendous help to me as a person and as a historian, although it must be admitted it has served to make my historical interpretations less conventional than may be acceptable of many of my colleagues in the field.

Hitler's economic revolution in Germany had reduced financial considerations to a point where they played no role in economic or political decisions

Each individual in a society is a nexus where innumerable relationships of this character intersect.