Niall Ferguson: The Great Degeneration, Kartoniert / Broschiert

Kurzbeschreibung

While the Arab world struggles to adopt democracy, and while China struggles to move from economic liberalization 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 civilization, Ferguson warns, will take heroic leadership and radical reform.

Beschreibung

Niall Ferguson's bold, pithy and insightful analysis of the degeneration of the West
The decline of the West is something that has long been prophesied. Symptoms of decline are all around us today: slowing growth, crushing debts, aging populations. But what exactly is amiss with Western civilization? The answer, Niall Ferguson argues, is that our institutions - the intricate frameworks within which a society can flourish or fail - are degenerating.
Representative government, the free market, the rule of law and civil society were once the four pillars of West European and North American societies. In our time, however, these institutions have deteriorated. The Great Degeneration is a powerful indictment of an era of negligence and complacency. While the Arab world struggles to adopt democracy, and while China struggles to move from economic liberalization to the rule of law, the West is frittering away the institutional inheritance of centuries. To arrest the decline, Ferguson warns, will take heroic leadership and radical reform.

Klappentext

Paperback edition of Ferguson's pithy polemic on the decline of the West. Based on his BBC Radio 4 Reith Lectures of 2012, he warns that arresting the degeneration of the West's once dominant civilization will take heroic leadership and radical reform. From the author of "Civilization, The Pity Of War, Empire" and many others.