Business has a hard time succeeding in societies that fail".
Laws both reflect and shape the societies that create them.
Those things flourish best in societies that feel secure.
In most societies, that would be an either-or question.
Q: Societies that treat women with respect are less violent.
Much of the plausibility of his account turns, however, on a catch-all clause that deals with societies that do not increase in complexity: societies that do not organise themselves effectively are conquered or outcompeted by societies that do.
They threaten and harass them in more open societies that they are seeking to close, and they arrest them and worse in societies that have been closed already.
Other societies that were afflicted with similar maladies have managed to restore themselves to health.
They survive because they confer benefits on the societies that practice them.
Buildings reflected the structure and preoccupations of the societies that constructed them, with considerable symbolic detail.
For much of our millennium, in many societies that meant condemnation.
