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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (3231)	4/24/2001 5:36:17 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 74559

>>i think what really interests folks is what caused these effects and not effects themselves. if one can define some reasonable causes then one might have a decent chance at predicting general economic environments in the future<< Gibbon wrote The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire so that the British would avoid the same happening to the British Empire. The British did not make the same mistakes that the Romans made, but they have no more empire. It did last a long time though - he finished volume 6 in 1788.