Abstract

The theoretical views of Prof. Ivan Kinkel on the economic history are presented and analyzed. He established an original concept on the systematic presentation of the periods of the global economic development, dividing it in three cultural civilization cycles, each having four consecutive forms. The so called Malthusian Law is also considered in an original way. He intends to use it as a theoretical framework to analyse the past. The scientific weight of the theoretical views of Prof. Kinkel is somewhat discredited by his proximity to left and right totalitarian ideologies and by the scientific propaganda of the ideas of race hygiene and Eugenics.