Title The great degeneration : how institutions decay and economies die / Niall Ferguson

Published London : Allen Lane, 2012

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Description 173 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 24 cm regular print Series Reith lectures. Contents Introduction -- The human hive -- The Darwinian economy -- The landscape of law -- Civil and uncivil societies -- Conclusion Summary One of the great puzzles of history is how best to explain the fate of nations - the wheel of fortune that raises up some and throws down others. There are a bewildering range of explanations, mostly contradicting one another, and embracing everything from climate to resources, from technology to plain luck. All societies are linked however by perhaps the most remarkable, tangled and elaborate of human inventions - the institutions that hold us together Notes "Based on the BBC Radio 4 Reith Lectures 2012"--Book jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-172) Subject Civil society -- Developed countries. Civil society. Civilization, Western -- 21st century. Civilization, Western. Economic history. Economics -- History. Institutional economics. Regression (Civilization) Rule of law. Social institutions -- Developed countries. SUBJECT Developed countries -- Economic conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001000125 -- 21st century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012478 Developed countries http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001000124 -- Social conditions -- 21st century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008643 Author Ferguson, Niall. Rule of law and its enemies ISBN 9781846147326 (hbk.) 9781846147432 (paperback)

Other Titles The D Generation of the West The rule of law and its enemies

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