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The Great Degeneration
How Institutions Decay and Economies Die
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The Great Degeneration
The decline of the West is something that has long been prophesied. Symptoms of decline are all around us today: slowing growth, crushing debts, ageing populations. But what exactly is amiss with Western civilization? The author argues that the institutions that were once the four pillars of Western society - representative government, and more.
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Niall Ferguson's pithy, digestible polemic on the decline of the West.
The Great Degeneration is a powerful—and in places polemical—indictment of an era of negligence and complacency. While the Arab world struggles to adopt democracy, and while China struggles to move from economic liberalisation to the rule of law, Europeans and Americans alike are frittering away the institutional inheritance of centuries. To arrest the degeneration of the West's once dominant civilisation, Ferguson warns, will take heroic leadership and radical reform.
This book is based on Niall Ferguson's BBC Radio 4 Reith Lectures 2012, which were broadcast under the title The Rule of Law and Its Enemies.
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Niall Ferguson's The Great Degeneration is lauded for its engaging writing style, wit, and profound insights, making complex ideas accessible and compelling. It's praised for its urgency and sharpness, with Ferguson's knack for intertwining historical analysis with memorable narratives. The book's ability to illuminate and captivate readers with a rich display of knowledge is frequently highlighted.
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ISBN: 9780141975238
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 30 January 2014
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 11.0mm
Width: 131.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 148g
Pages: 192
About the Author
Niall Ferguson is one of Britain's most renowned historians. He is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, a senior faculty fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard, and a visiting professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing. He is the author of fifteen books, including The Pity of War, The House of Rothschild, Empire, Civilization and Kissinger, 1923-1968- The Idealist, which won the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Prize. He is an award-making filmmaker, too, having won an international Emmy for his PBS series The Ascent of Money. His many other prizes include the Benjamin Franklin Prize for Public Service (2010), the Hayek Prize for Lifetime Achievement (2012) and the Ludwig Erhard Prize for Economic Journalism (2013). He was named Columnist of the Year at the 2018 British Press Awards.
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