Analytical Units

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Textbook of Americanism: By Ayn Rand, 1946. Rand articulates the capitalist ideological position that would reduce social wholes to individual social atoms.
Understanding the principles of liberty: By Haines Brown, 26 March 2005. A critical assessment of the Rand article above.
Process as an analytical unit suited to historiography of the twenty-first century: By Haines Brown, 13 September 2003. Proposes a way to construct an analytical unit that is based on change rather than on static qualities.
Evolution Biology and the Simultaneous Policy: Vision-Logic for the Next Stage in our Evolutionary Future: By John Bunzl, 25 May 2004. Tries to use Koestler' holon unit of analysis to explain the role of cooperation in human evolution.
Asiatic Mode of Production debates: A discussion on the Marxism list, August 2006. Literature relevant to the Marxist positon that the appropriate unit of analysis is a soccio-economic system so conceived as to explain human development thanks to our productive relation with the natural environment combined with class struggle.
Dialectics, Complexity and the Crisis: By MikeNOC@aol.com, 1 October 2006. A paper written some years ago that adopts a systems approach to consider the analogy between chaos theory and present social developments.