Practice question · Select all that apply
What characterizes the defensible modern position?
Hints
- The defensible position works through costs and institutions.
- Its effects change as technology changes.
Show the answer
- A. Geography sets a price list rather than an outcome
- B. It acts through institutions, never directly on people
- C. Its effects are contingent on technology
Why
Costs, institutions, contingency. The fourth is where determinism always went and where it was always empty, no climate has ever made a people industrious.
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