... full account of the interpreta-tion of the cyclical history of one country, in preference to partial ac-counts of the three countries that Schumpeter discussed at length. The nature of the theory, ... of the causation of economic fluctuations properly so called, that is, of those economic changes which are inherent in the working of the economic organism itself. 11 The best examples of ... range of our investigation look upon wars, danger of war, revolutions, and social unrest as exter-nal factors. Changes in the tariff policy of a country or in its System of taxation, measures of...