Like scientists, they deal in digits, graphs, computorial models and printouts, but they are really scholars in a branch of history, White wrote.
Historians believe that by reading the past, they are able to predict the future.
The laws of greed are, however, no more predictable than the laws of fear. In fear, men may turn and fight-or turn and flee. In the gusts of greed, men may hoard and save-or spend and waste. Little can be predicted unless we look at the past. Tax cuts have been proposed roughly every 20 years, by Kennedy in 1961, by Reagan in 1981 and now by George W. Bush in 2001.