Another famous book of his, "The Poverty of Historicism," attacked the popular notion that history had a shape, a progression, followed laws of development.
Kasarda is less co-author than inspirational Yoda, supplying the vision and the immutable "laws" of development for 21st-century life — emphasis on location, accessibility and speed.
Constantin Stere, the chief theorist of Romanian populism, argued at the turn of the century that Romania could become a prosperous, modern state by following the "laws" of development specific to agrarian societies.
The views of von Baer (1828) on the relationships between animals are outlined by his four laws of development.
Of course, if one looks at a collection of (simultaneous) data for water levels and bread prices one will see a correlation due to similar laws of development (similar transition chances).
Thus without imposing any constraints on the initial state S1 of the system P, we have shown that there will always be perfectly ordinary, non-paradoxical, solutions, in which everything that happens, happens according to the usual laws of development.
He valued (1) empiricism without universal generalizations or laws of development, as well as (2) the synthesis between the subjective and objective aspects of interpreted materials without metaphysical commitments about the mind, and (3) the interest, found in Meyer and Schmoller, in the plurality of conditions and institutions that may characterize a historical phenomenon or period.
In this context holism is to be understood as the view that human social groupings are greater than the sum of their members, that such groupings are 'organic' entities in their own right, that they act on their human members and shape their destinies, and that they are subject to their own independent laws of development.
Mendel believed that these traits were related by a "constant law of development" to certain "elements" or "factors" in the reproductive cells from which organisms developed.
At Marx's funeral in Highgate Cemetery, Engels declared that Marx had made two great discoveries, the law of development of human history and the law of motion of bourgeois society.
