The Accursed Share

by Bataille, Georges (1988)

Abstract

For some years, being obliged on occasion to answer the question" What are you working on?" I was embarrassed to have to say," A book of political economy." Coming from me, this venture was disconcerting, at least to those who did not know me well.(The interest that is …

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In actual fact the quantitative relations of population and tool­making -and, in general, the conditions of economic develop­ment in history -are subject to so many interferences that it is always difficult to determine their exact distribution. (p.36)

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