Niall Ferguson - Why the West is in Decline

[meister]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/t...n-decline.html


New UK Channel 4 series from one of the best contemporary minds.

 

[Lord-Barrington]

Paul Krugman may not be right about everything but one place where he's spot on is that Ferguson is pompous, shallow, and superficially relevant as a researcher.

 

[Don Carlos]

Low "self-belief" is the cause of Western decline? Really? That is just about the stupidest argument I have ever heard. That is Pauly Shore dumb. That is the "The Secret" of historical analysis.

Of course a civilization in decline isn't going to publish as much self-praising literature as a civilization at its peak. Correlation vs. causation, anyone?

 

[HRoi]

I agree, now that Melo and Deron Williams have switched conferences