GEM13: Niall Ferguson on the global economic conundrum
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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
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Conundrum? It's rampant, infinite, unsustainable consumption on a finite planet, full stop. All this reasoning and explaining how "complex" and best left to economists is what brought this final social cancer stage in capitalism.
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Wish I could find the time to analyze how Ferguson's 5 Killer Apps argument squares against Simon Winchester's narrative of Joseph Needham's study of China in the book Man Who Loved China.
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Man, this guy used to by a proud Scotsman. Look at him now.
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On 32 min you can see Vuk Jeremic - President of UN General Assembly. Maybe he will get Niall to join his think tank, the Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development, CIRSD. Interesting!
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Ferguson needs to take a deeper look at culture, human behavior, and yes geography!
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Like always the pros are always in the comments field and not in the video. How depressing.
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Niall Ferguson is totally wrong. If this guy thinks Africa will be a driver of future growth he is out of his mind. Negros have much smaller brains than whites or asians, they cannot and will never produce an advanced civilization.
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ferguson is rothschilds pet .. he is the friends of the old massachussets blue blood too now ..
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Niall Ferguson doesn't understand money. He should study MMT. These right wingers always worried about govt debt.
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Reference the Economist food-price index Malthusian mouthfuls then US BLS wages, finally API retail gas prices over time, then ratio and see if w:c = .37 across the spectrum...
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Reference the Economist food-price index Malthusian mouthfuls then US BLS wages, finally API retail gas prices over time, then ratio and see if w:c = .37 across the spectrum...
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Pray tell Old Chap; what might the likes of of Locke and Smithy boy say 'bout the Yank's NSA shenanigans' eh what?
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if the average minimum wage per hour was kept at pace with GDP inflation year on year ..the national minimum wager per hour should be $20 but it is stagnant for 30 years... american people are kept misinformed and iron curtained ..the wizrd of Oz if you will ..
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niall ferguson economics is full of head and very little heart ..
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