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The Great Degeneration

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4T 16M
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Økonomi & Business

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.

© 2013 W. F. Howes Ltd (Lydbog): 9781471232541

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Lydbog: 2. maj 2013

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