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| b466a76 | six degrees of the mathematician Paul Erdos, himself a pioneer of network theory, as we have seen.13 Recent research suggests the number is now closer to five than six, which suggests that technological change since the 1970s has perhaps been less transformative than is commonly supposed.14 For the directors of Fortune 1000 companies, however, it is 4.6.15 For Facebook users it was 3.74 in 2012,16 and just 3.57 in 2016. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| 74ae063 | By the means of Telescopes, there is nothing so far distant but may be represented to our view; and by the help of Microscopes, there is nothing so small, as to escape our inquiry; hence there is a new visible World discovered to the understanding. By this means the Heavens are open'd, and a vast number of new Stars, and new Motions, and new Productions appear in them, to which all the ancient Astronomers were utterly Strangers. By this the.. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| 5d69908 | according to Christakis and Fowler, we cannot transmit ideas and behaviours much beyond our friends' friends' friends (in other words, across just three degrees of separation). This is because the transmission and reception of an idea or behaviour requires a stronger connection than the relaying of a letter (in the case of Milgram's experiment) or the communication that a certain employment opportunity exists. Merely knowing people is not t.. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| 0f42884 | first networked polity. 'In no country in the world,' declared Tocqueville, 'has the principle of association been more successfully used or applied to a greater multitude of objects than in America': | Niall Ferguson | ||
| 49eba94 | half of the American population agree with at least one conspiracy [theory] . . . Far from being an aberrant expression of some political extreme or a product of gross misinformation, a conspiratorial view of politics is a widespread tendency across the entire ideological spectrum . . . [M]any predominant belief systems in the United States, be they Christian narratives about God and Satan . . . or left-wing narratives about neoliberalism ... | Niall Ferguson | ||
| 3f5756a | The biggest threat to Western civilization is posed not by other civilizations, but by our own pusillanimity -- and by the historical ignorance that feeds it. | history west western-civilization western-culture | Niall Ferguson | |
| 15b10dc | A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: protocol, Geritol and alcohol. | Adlai Stevenson II | ||
| 8ed0c7f | Stalin's power consisted of three distinct elements: total control of the party bureaucracy, total control of the means of communication - with the Kremlin telephone network as the central hub - and total control of a secret police staffed by men who themselves lived in fear. No Oriental despot had wielded such complete personal power over an empire, because no previous hierarchy had been able to make participation in unofficial networks - .. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| 7cf62c3 | In July 1900, at the time of the intervention against the Boxers, between 3,000 and 5,000 Chinese were drowned at Blagoveshchensk when they were forced by whip-wielding Cossacks and local Russian police to swim across the wide and fast-flowing Amur to the Chinese side. No boats were provided and those who resisted or refused to get in the water were shot or cut down with sabres. This little-known incident, a harbinger of so many twentieth-c.. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| cbfac21 | What the complacent Russians forgot was that their strengths - above all, their technological superiority - were not a permanent monopoly conferred by Providence on people with white skin. There was in fact nothing biological to prevent Asians from adopting Western forms of economic and political organization, nor from replicating Western inventions. The first Asian country to work out how to do so was Japan. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| 3ff8769 | From 1500, anyone in China found building a ship with more than two masts was liable to the death penalty; in 1551 it became a crime even to go to sea in such a ship.21 The records of Zheng He's journeys were destroyed. Zheng He himself died and was almost certainly buried at sea. What | Niall Ferguson | ||
| 60fe7b7 | It was a war of evil against lesser evil. | Niall Ferguson | ||
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En ambas economias el caos fiscal se aunaba con la inflacion rampante, que en Alemania evocaba la hiperinflacion de 1923.Y ?no habia sido Hitler el < |
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| 5b39551 | In marked contrast, Ottoman scientific progress was non-existent in this same period. The best explanation for this divergence was the unlimited sovereignty of religion in the Muslim world. Towards the end of the eleventh century, influential Islamic clerics began to argue that the study of Greek philosophy was incompatible with the teachings of the Koran.32 | Niall Ferguson | ||
| b95e838 | No one can know the future, least of all, a historian, whose business is the past. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| e080ac2 | In the 1990s the world's population for the first time exceeded six billion, more than three times what it had been when the First World War broke out. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| 034f3b5 | Elias Canetti once tried to imagine a world in which 'all weapons [were] abolished and in the next war only biting [was] allowed'. Can we be sure there would be no genocides in such a radically disarmed world? | Niall Ferguson | ||
| a7e2141 | The Russian commander whose ship was torpedoed by SMS Emden off Penang on October 28, 1914, was certainly unprepared for the new age of global conflict. Only twelve rounds of ammunition were ready on deck; but there were sixty Chinese prostitutes below. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| 9b9ceb6 | Some [surrendering Germans] would crawl on their knees,' recalled one British soldier, 'holding a picture of a woman or a child in their hands above their heads but everyone was killed. The excitement was gone. We killed in cold blood because it was our duty to kill as much as we could. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| 430c371 | According to S. A. Nilus, a secret Jewish council known as the Sanhedrin had hypnotized the Japanese into believing they were one of the tribes of Israel; it was the Jews' aim, Nilus insisted, 'to set a distraught Russia awash with blood and to inundate it, and then Europe, with the yellow hordes of a resurgent China guided by Japan'. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| ac5679a | the libel that Jews ritually murdered Christian children to mix their blood in the unleavened bread baked at Passover appears to have originated in twelfth-century England. By the fifteenth century it had reached German-speaking Central Europe; by the sixteenth, Poland, and by the eighteenth century it was firmly established all over Eastern Europe, from Lithuania to Romania. In 1840 there was an international outcry over a 'blood libel' ca.. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| cb3e8f3 | every one per cent increase in the Bank of England's base lending rate correlated with a three per cent drop in government popularity. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| edda7e4 | least 40 million people died as a result of the epidemic, the majority of them suffocated by a lethal accumulation of blood and other fluid in the lungs. Ironically, unlike most flu epidemics, but like the war that preceded and spread it, the influenza of 1918 disproportionately killed young adults. One in every hundred American males between the ages of 25 and 34 fell victim to the 'Spanish Lady'. Strikingly, the global peak of mortality w.. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| 970ecbc | Inflation', wrote Milton Friedman in a famous definition, 'is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon, in the sense that it cannot occur without a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output.' What | Niall Ferguson | ||
| 69b9472 | How can you make a revolution without firing squads?' Lenin asked. 'If we can't shoot a White Guard saboteur, what sort of great revolution is it? Nothing but talk and a bowl of mush. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| 6110c0a | The whole notion of exemplary violence seemed to fire Lenin's imagination. On August 11, 1918 he wrote a letter to Bolshevik leaders in Penza that speaks volumes: Comrades! The kulak uprising must be crushed without pity... An example must be made. 1) Hang (and I mean hang so that the people can see) not less than 100 known bloodsuckers. 2) Publish their names. 3) Take all their grain away from them... Do this so that for hundreds of miles .. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| 32cf38b | it is not 'Eurocentrism' or (anti-)'Orientalism' to say that the rise of Western civilization is the single most important historical phenomenon of the second half of the second millennium after Christ. It is a statement of the obvious. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| 665dba6 | the twentieth century ran a series of experiments, imposing quite different institutions on two sets of Germans (in West and East), two sets of Koreans (in North and South) and two sets of Chinese (inside and outside the People's Republic). The results were very striking and the lesson crystal clear. If you take the same people, with more or less the same culture, and impose communist institutions on one group and capitalist institutions on.. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| 416c9bc | Michael Burleigh de un modo esclarecedor ha empleado en fechas recientes para explicar la caracteristica esencial del nazismo: el liderazgo mesianico, la necesidad de adoctrinar, el afan de persecucion.55 | Niall Ferguson | ||
| 8f030d1 | In 1940, under Churchill's inspired, indomitable, incomparable leadership, the Empire had stood alone against the truly evil imperialism of Hitler. Even if it did not last for the thousand years that Churchill hopefully suggested it might, this was indeed the British Empire's 'finest hour'. Yet what made it so fine, so authentically noble, was that the Empire's victory could only ever have been Pyrrhic. In the end, the British sacrificed he.. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| 5993a02 | The question was simply this: Would the world be French or British? | Niall Ferguson | ||
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se podia incluir a Rothschild en la misma categoria de Richelieu y Robespierre como uno de los < |
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| 8f84b3b | Los gobernantes arbitrarios y corruptos tienen una enorme responsabilidad por este fracaso economico.36 Buena parte del dinero que llovio sobre los paises pobres ha sido simplemente filtrado y devuelto (con frecuencia hacia cuentas de bancos en Suiza), pues los gobernantes corruptos han atesorado sus mal obtenidas ganancias en el extranjero. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| 7be6fca | they sought, from their earliest days, to use their financial leverage over individual states to improve the legal and political position of the Jews living there. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| 3a9d162 | Optimistic buyers of stocks are bulls, pessimistic sellers are bears. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| f408dd4 | Las tasas de desempleo en la mayoria de los paises europeos son tambien marcadamente mas altas que las de Estados Unidos, mas del 10 por ciento en Belgica y Espana, mas de dos veces la tasa de Estados Unidos.Y por | Niall Ferguson | ||
| 00e7daa | parece seguro que esta decadencia relativa continuara en un futuro inmediato. Para muchos estadounidenses, la principal importancia de Europa no es la de ser un rival estrategico sino un destino turistico. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| fe655c0 | En resumen, Europa es una clase curiosa de union, una confederacion que, sin siquiera haber llegado a serlo, fantasea con convertirse en una federacion. Tiene un ejecutivo, un parlamento, una camara alta, un tribunal de justicia, un banco central, una moneda comun, una bandera y un himno. Pero solo tiene un presupuesto comun diminuto y lo justo para un ejercito comun. Muchas | Niall Ferguson | ||
| beee8a1 | La UE esta muy poblada pero envejece. Su economia es grande pero lenta. Su productividad no es mala, pero esta viciada por el ocio excesivo. Es | Niall Ferguson | ||
| 253f4c1 | Como Keynes dijo una vez, cuando los hechos cambian uno debe cambiar de opinion. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| 8ec6b22 | Sirve el Hummer para la conquista, o para el consumo? La respuesta es que para ambas cosas. De hecho, con su bajo kilometraje por litro (un promedio de cuatro kilometros por litro) y su gran altura y anchura, ejemplifica el despilfarro estadounidense en el uso del petroleo. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| 81408d5 | Elias Canetti recordando su experiencia juvenil en una Frankfurt asolada por la inflacion--. [Es] un aquelarre de devaluacion donde los hombres y las unidades de su dinero se causan mutuamente extranos efectos. Confundiendose unos con otros, los hombres se sienten tan "malos" como su dinero; y esto se vuelve cada vez peor. Juntos, todos se hallan a su merced y se sienten todos igualmente faltos de valor.>>" | Ferguson Niall | ||
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Era a Lenin a quien Keynes atribuia esa idea de que < |
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camarada bolchevique Yevgueni Preobrazhenski* si describio la prensa de papel moneda como < |
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