The following sums up the book nicely: "Countries arrive at the stationary state, as Adam Smith argued, when their 'laws and institutions' degenerate to the point that elite rent-seeking dominates the economic and political process. rant with a dash of xenophobia and racism added.Interesting ideas, but Ferguson jumps to conclusions with an ease that is a bit disturbing.

England . Published Just as important as the parties are the officials – civil servants, judges or ombudsmen – whose responsibility it is to ensure that the elections are fair. By using our website you agree to our   Great analysis by Ferguson, I cannot recommend it enough. CD-Audio US$21.95 It's a bit of a 'grumpy old man' piece in that the outcome seems to now be sealed and Ferguson didn't give us the expected 'here is how to solve it' ideas. He sees the ‘Arab Spring’ primarily as a revolt by frustrated would-be entrepreneurs against corrupt, rent-seeking regimes that preyed on their efforts to accumulate capital. But today, if you are born to parents in the bottom income quintile, you have just a 5 per cent chance of getting into the top quintile without a college degree.”     There seem to be two-- or perhaps more--Niall Fergusons out there. A great book, essential reading for everybody concerned with the crisis of the state of the western world.

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  The progressive state is in reality the cheerful and the hearty state to all the different orders of the society. He argues that each is in a state of decline and concludes those declines have long term consequences. In the same period, 3.3 million Americans were awarded disabled worker benefits.
I enjoyed much of the book, but the chapter on education really disappointed me. Niall Ferguson's long-view ( 500 years) of the interplay of history, culture, innovation and economies are enlightening and troubling.I wish he had included his other writings on the struggle between hierarchies and networks in The Great Degeneration.

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First, wages for the majority of people were miserably low: Though the wealth of a country should be very great, yet if it has been long stationary, we must not expect to find the wages of labour very high in it . The Great Recession is merely a symptom of a more profound Great Degeneration.” Their elected representatives making speeches and voting in a large assembly hall, yes. International studies show that certain Asian countries succeed really well.   My last read of his was "Colossus", which I read at the height of the Iraq war. US$29.13 x 25mm And then it matters hugely how the legislature itself actually operates. Their arbitrary act of expropriation cost Mohamed Bouazizi his livelihood and his life. On the other hand, the cherry picking sprinkled with personal examples he uses as evidence fall short, especially since there some self contradiction in wat he writes. Buy The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die by Ferguson, Niall (ISBN: 9780141975238) from Amazon's Book Store. US$7.86   Welcome back. I've given away some copies as presents.

He touted the success rates of charter schools in American and suggested the "voucher" system in Denmark shows remarkable results. Ferguson says he's not an economist; he writes about economic history, so he takes a historical perspective. Tim has 480 books on Goodreads, and is currently reading The City of Gold and Lead by John Christopher and The Great Degeneration by Niall Ferguson 3.53 (1,498 ratings by Goodreads) Paperback. Major influences on my thinking include Douglass North, who won the Nobel Prize for Economics for his work on institutions; the pre-eminent economist of modern Africa, Paul Collier, author of The Bottom Billion and Plundered Planet; Hernando de Soto, the Peruvian economist and author of The Mystery of Capital; Andrei Shleifer and his numerous co-authors, who have pioneered an economic approach to the comparative study of legal systems; and Jim Robinson and Daron Acemoglu, whose book Why Nations Fail asks similar questions to the ones that interest me.”

Wouldn't it be useful to find out why? A lot of the reviews of this short book which is taken from a group of lectures seem to be grumpy about the conclusions or miss the argument.

Institutions have boundaries, often walls. Dispatched from the UK in 1 business day Community Reviews 1. How was that for a run-on sentence?


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