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At the 2013 Global Empowerment Meeting, Niall Ferguson attempts to make sense of the current economic situation from a historical perspective. Are we re-visiting the 1970s when rich countries stagnated in an economic morass, while natural resource exporters boomed? And what is to come: will our era be followed by a decade like the 1980s, when developed countries rebounded and natural resource economies collapsed? Or, are there other historical parallels more enlightening for today's context? View Niall Ferguson's presentation slides: http://www.hks.harvard.edu/var/ezp_site/storage/fckeditor/file/pdfs/centers-programs/centers/cid/news_and_events/recent-conferences/GEM2013/Ferguson_DawnDusk_GEM13.pdf For more information on GEM, visit http://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/cid/news-events/recent-conferences/gem