But Nye tells VOA that while the power of U.S.ideas and its ability "to deter Soviet aggression" are essential to understanding the end of the Cold War, neither are root causes.
VOA: standard.2009.11.03
Okay. This is a first walk through some essential ideas.
Yet because economists take these essentialideas for granted, they spend their time arguing about much more contentious notions, developed in one disputed way or another from those common underlying principles.
