The Great Degeneration, Niall Ferguson
The Great Degeneration, Niall Ferguson
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The Great Degeneration
How Institutions Decay and Economies Die

Author: Niall Ferguson

Narrator: Paul Slack

Unabridged: 4 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/13/2013

Synopsis

Bestselling author and world-renowned historian Niall Ferguson has won widespread acclaim for thought-provoking works such as Civilization and High Financier. The Great Degeneration tackles nothing less than the decline of Western civilization. Ferguson posits that slowing growth, outrageous debt, and antisocial behavior are contributing to the erosion of the West's once rock-solid foundations. Ferguson excavates the causes and shows how heroic leadership and radical reform are needed to right the course.

About Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University; the William Ziegler Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School; a senior research fellow of Jesus College, Oxford; and a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford. The bestselling author of Paper and Iron, The House of Rothschild, The Pity of War, The Cash Nexus, Empire, Colossus, and The War of the World, he is also a contributing editor of the Financial Times. Since 2003, he has written and presented three highly successful television documentary series for British television: Empire, American Colossus, and, most recently, The War of the World. He and his family divide their time between the United Kingdom and the United States.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Riku

Why Nations Fail Ferguson tells us that according to Adam Smith himself, countries can be said to have arrived at the “stationary state” when their ‘laws and institutions’ degenerate to the point that elite rent-seeking dominates the economic and political process. The book makes a case that this is......more

Goodreads review by Steve

There seem to be two-- or perhaps more--Niall Fergusons out there. One is a very accomplished historian, who, starting with work on German inflation and a biography of the House of Rothschild and on into The Cash Nexus, established his bona fides as a historian, especially in the financial realm. Hi......more

Goodreads review by Gregg

Short review: I think Ferguson is full of crap. Moderate, amateur review: I don't have the training or the IQ to debate this guy head to head, but I suspect three-fourths of what he says is crap. Ferguson's basic thesis is that the West is in a state of "degeneration," or stagnation, due to overregu......more

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