The Endurance of History in the Age of ‘ Good Governance ’ : Re - interpreting
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The paper is under review at the Review of International Political Economy (RIPE). Please do not cite without the permission of the authors. Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labours of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge. Cicero And Diotallevi kept interjecting, sententiously: 'Historia magistra vitae.' To which Belbo responded: 'Come on, cabalists don't believe in history.' And Diotallevi invariably answered: 'That's just the point. Everything is repeated, in a circle. History is a master because it teaches us that it doesn't exist. It's the permutations that matter.' Umberto Eco (1989), Foucault's Pendulum History teaches nothing, but only punishes for not learning its lessons.
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