I would say that recent work on the collapse of the Harappan civilization seems to point to ecological not institutional factors, a la A & R. When one looks at the greatness that this civilization achieved, one is reminded that social and technological progress, benefiting the vast majority, do not result only from the inclusive institutions of capitalist property relations and bourgeois democracy.. But this is the message that one gets from A&R (I also wonder whether such a message is implicit in Brenner's institutional analysis of the differences between pre-capitalist and capitalist social relations in his contribution to Analytical Marxism. ed. Roemer, a finer example of the the analysis of the logic of institutions than what A &R offer).
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