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Niall Ferguson On The Six Killer Apps Of Western Civilisation
Niall Ferguson On The Six Killer Apps Of Western Civilisation
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85 minutes
Released:
Feb 20, 2014
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Podcast episode
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Niall Ferguson is the most brilliant British historian of his generation. In this talk from February 2011, based on his book 'Civilisation: The West and the Rest', he asks how Western civilization came to dominate the rest of the world.
His answer is that the West developed six “killer applications” that the Rest lacked: competition, science, democracy, medicine, consumerism and the Protestant work ethic.
The key question today is whether or not the West has lost its monopoly on these six things. If it has and the Rest of the world can successfully download these apps, we may be living through the end of Western ascendancy. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
His answer is that the West developed six “killer applications” that the Rest lacked: competition, science, democracy, medicine, consumerism and the Protestant work ethic.
The key question today is whether or not the West has lost its monopoly on these six things. If it has and the Rest of the world can successfully download these apps, we may be living through the end of Western ascendancy. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Released:
Feb 20, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode
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