Why West Daniel Cohen Analysis
Daniel Cohen divides his book in 3 main parts, each dealing with a general notion and period, and composed of several subparts more specified.
In the introduction, D.C. starts by dressing a general timeline and capture of the world. He raises thought provoking questions that he will try to answer.
In his first part, entitled “Why West ?”, Daniel Cohen tries to bring an answer to such a controversial question. Firstly, he reminds the genesis of the economy, evoking the birth of agriculture, the regroupment of humans into cities, and the appearance of the “tyranny of productivity”, form of “social darwinism” that started to rule the world and the people long time before the Industrial Revolution. Moreover, Daniel Cohen is not naive and remains …show more content…
What a sad summary : instead of bringing peace and development, prosperity would be the main cause of World War I. Germany being too prosperous and competitive for its anxious and jealous European neighbours. We can see here the link between economics and politics/wars issues. Furthermore, Daniel Cohen comes back on the great economic crisis of 1929, and explains how an economic crisis will turn in a social one, which will lead to change the facet of the economy with the rise of Keynesian theories. Europe will be summarised by its economic fluctuations, influencing and being influenced by politics, sociology and philosophy. People get obsessed with growth, which lead to huge instabilities in times of depression. This new economic framework leads a to a progressive end of solidarities : once depression, people won’t help each other, and the traditional structures got erased with a wish of people to always get more, and more than others. Here is the sad impact of the economic on social. In addition, growth does not always bring prosperity and peace, since war can constitute a main source of demand and
In the introduction, D.C. starts by dressing a general timeline and capture of the world. He raises thought provoking questions that he will try to answer.
In his first part, entitled “Why West ?”, Daniel Cohen tries to bring an answer to such a controversial question. Firstly, he reminds the genesis of the economy, evoking the birth of agriculture, the regroupment of humans into cities, and the appearance of the “tyranny of productivity”, form of “social darwinism” that started to rule the world and the people long time before the Industrial Revolution. Moreover, Daniel Cohen is not naive and remains …show more content…
What a sad summary : instead of bringing peace and development, prosperity would be the main cause of World War I. Germany being too prosperous and competitive for its anxious and jealous European neighbours. We can see here the link between economics and politics/wars issues. Furthermore, Daniel Cohen comes back on the great economic crisis of 1929, and explains how an economic crisis will turn in a social one, which will lead to change the facet of the economy with the rise of Keynesian theories. Europe will be summarised by its economic fluctuations, influencing and being influenced by politics, sociology and philosophy. People get obsessed with growth, which lead to huge instabilities in times of depression. This new economic framework leads a to a progressive end of solidarities : once depression, people won’t help each other, and the traditional structures got erased with a wish of people to always get more, and more than others. Here is the sad impact of the economic on social. In addition, growth does not always bring prosperity and peace, since war can constitute a main source of demand and