Niall Ferguson: Why Great Civilizations Rise and Fall
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- Опубликовано: 1 июн 2024
- Niall Ferguson is a renowned historian, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and prolific author of more than a dozen best-selling works on economics, culture, and politics. His newest book, "Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe,” examines how our leaders and societies have dealt with disasters, including pandemics, and how we must learn from the past to better manage future crises.
In this episode, Ferguson explains why the rise and fall of civilizations do not fit into predictable patterns and cycles. He does not see American decline as inevitable and holds out that America’s best days may yet be ahead -- if it can stay on the right path. Ferguson also pulls back the curtain on the Chinese Communist Party, revealing the ways in which the CCP's strengths are exaggerated and why the United States’ support for smart policy and innovation will bolster its dominance in the years ahead.
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00:00 Episode intro
00:46 Are we doomed?
07:19 The rise of Western Civ
14:00 The history of money and DeFi
24:00 Will China overtake the U.S.?
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Lonsdale should talk less and listen more. Ferguson is a genius and has the wherewithal to tell the world how it should do civilization.
Agreed about the interruptions. I generally enjoy listening to Ferguson, as he's articulate and well-read. It sometimes takes him a while to complete a point but it's usually worth listening 'til the end.
Nice. But better if host interrupted less,
Agreed, he keeps jumping in at the end of every other sentence so I stopped watching
“Systems of entitlement”. Excellent description of the entitlement mentality.
Excellent! Thank you!
The only problem with this podcast... Is that it wasn't long enough.
Mr. Lonsdale I love this show and I find each episode has great lessons.
Great guest! Ferguson’s The Ascent of Money is such a great book. Highly recommended.
Great interview. Interesting discussion re reform of the administrative state. This is absolutely critical to a Western consolidation in the face of the dynamism and energy inherent in the challenge from China. 35-50% of western GDP is chewed up, wasted or redistributed by the state. We must live up to the great achievements of our ancestors to reboot our productive and creative capacities!
Yes, 100%
Rule of law vs Rule of Lawyers. Great point about a legal system being too expensive for most ppl to access
Excellent closing statement, very well said... at 27:30
Holy! Incredible! Keep the interviews coming 🥰🚀
Great work. I've subscribed. Thank you!
Lovr niall, great conversation wish it went on longer
Would Prof Ferguson investigate the possibility that current fixable failings in Western democracies were intentional ?
Terrific. Thank you.
What a great conversation.. I can't believe there are only 14K views?
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The American system is based on debt and getting as much debt into the system. The Chinese have followed suit as well.
From my point of view, I think age isn’t an issue to treat leadership, it’s how and what the leader make decisions that matters.
the leader is chosen by the people, theoretically.
Amazing interview. Regards :)
Thanks!
I think a great book to piggyback on some of what he said is "The Rational Optimist" by Matt Ridley. Its a great read if you arent busy already reading one of Niall's.
Great recommendation!
Yes indeed. Great book that I read only recently.
Prince Harry could've let Niall flow
Great guests and great conversations! Well done Joe.
Steven Pinker might be a great fit as a guest for this podcast
I have missed NF, how influencial are you to get him on your program..
Bravo.
The 4th Turning does a great job of showing cycles of crisis.
Wonder what Niall's opinion of the Fourth Turning?
Have the host just talk the whole time and not feel like he was talking most of the time.
Shld talk about demographic bombs to hit China, Russ and western Eur.
So Kondratiev cycles are not such patterns?
i do not understand few years ago he was debating farheed zakaria that 21th century belong to china and he is saying china sucks ?
If we want to improve things in the United States we need to reduce our reliance on income taxes by raising taxes on alcohol. We need to change State Statutes and Federal Obamacare law to allow discounts on premiums for sobers adults. We need to implement the NTSB recommendation of 2009 and lower the blood alcohol content to .05 from .08. Utah did this and had a 45% reduction in alcohol crashes and a 18% reduction in alcohol crash fatalities.
Beloved remember utterance has a true foundation and an Aim before thy utterance LEAVES thy mouths beloved. Likewise with sincere conversations with God and to thyself and to one another sincere answers will be given indeed. Indeed availeth much. Specially before moving forward asked thy intent, thy based, thy foundation, and where thy hearts will be also beloved. Used these 2. 1st. Love God as a CHILDS 2nd. Love thy neighbors as thyself beloved. Truth and peace reunite
This fuckin stud ^^ intellectually I mean obviously.
why niall ferguson ended up with hoover? he was a really good historian but i watched him debating fareed zakaria for the motion that 21st cenruty belong to china . it was agreat debate but now it is looks like these day he had 180 degree turn
Niall Ferguson!!!
Always curious to see unwavering neoliberalism at work.
should have mentioned fergo in the title why is this so viewless
Bonjour
Ils ont désinformer l'investigation, quand le dossier venait il n'avait pas toutes est tournure, ils ont été complexes devant les oeuvres et de former de plans pour s'approprier. C'est mes partenaires qui m'ont initié et à aucun cas ils ne doivent me laisser dans les mains de mes ennemis. J'ai mes références et n'ont même pas me rapprocher, me masqué devant la nation, aux personnels de l'institution ils m'ont vendu dans le monde entier en transformant en binesse. Désolée de leur actes.
My favorite geostrategist Peter Zeihan notes that crypto is the tulip craze without the tulips. I think of crypo as Beany Babies. For those who criticizes fiat money - what in the world is crypto which is based on absolutely nothing except hope-and-change?
I'm getting a bowl of popcorn to watch the show.
Not trying to reduce everything to silly politics, but there's any great civilization that grew from what we call ''left-wing mentality''?
What flavor was the R Kool-Aid that you drank, Niall? Straight out of their playbook. Might as well be a parrot. Any standard R over the last 50 years could have given this interview. No new news here.
Contact tracing can be done in democratic societies too if you can just ignore the privacy issue that being concerned. For Taiwan, pits a Chinese democratic society that somehow the oriental ppl has more or less submissive genes,?so you can do it in a society that majority of ppl are Chinese but n the western societies, the privacy concern and the respect to privacy was something they didn’t go this way to handle the pandemic!!
Nonsense
Honestly can't understand why so much praise , after 5 minutes listening to this, got bored, it's all abstract dry opinions, "got to do this , not do this and that's the fix for everything", nothing concrete
He knows nothing about mrna biotech . He should stay in his lane.
Propaganda from the right
Is propaganda exclusive to those who politically lean to the right, Eduardo?
Analyzing China with a Western perspective is a constant mistake American analyst and intellectuals are doing.
@manmetr Do you think the discussion at the end of this video was from a Western perspective?