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The Great Degeneration

By: Niall Ferguson
Narrated by: Paul Slack
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Summary
 Symptoms of decline are all around us today, it seems: slowing growth, crushing debts, aging populations, anti-social behaviour. 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. To arrest the degeneration of the West's civilization, Ferguson warns, will take heroic leadership and radical reform.©2012 Niall Ferguson (P)2013 W F Howes Ltd Economics
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I enjoyed this almost as much as his book on money, if only it were longer and had a better cover, I’m sure it you’d be more widely read, it’s got lots of easy to understand financial and general history.

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