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Critics have charged Landes with Eurocentrism in his analysis, a charge which Landes himself does not deny — in fact, he embraces it explicitly, arguing that an explanation for an economic miracle that happened originally only in Europe ( though he deals with the later ' Asian miracle ' in Wealth and Poverty ) must of necessity be a Eurocentric analysis, thus siding at least at some level with thinkers such as Bernard Lewis.

Following Daniel Bell, knowledge is the necessary link between ' The European miracle ' and the American post-industrial society.