It warms my heart to no end that there's another Braudel fan here! =) I didn't intend to come off as wholly dismissive of Marx--it's very fair to say that he's

It warms my heart to no end that there's another Braudel fan here! =) I didn't intend to come off as wholly dismissive of Marx--it's very fair to say that he's one of the great thinkers of political economy and sociology. But relying on 19th century thinkers when they've been surpassed always strikes me as unfortunate.