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  1. Niall Ferguson _ The Square and the Tower:

    Meanwhile, as Francis Fukuyama has argued, the very legitimacy of democratic politics is being corroded because 'interest groups . . . are able to effectively buy politicians with campaign contributions and lobbying', a process that he dubs 'repatrimonialization
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  2. Niall Ferguson _ La guerra del mundo

    La retórica europea de los nazis halló especial resonancia en todos aquellos conservadores para quienes el dominio alemán parecía un mal menor frente al comunismo soviético.
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  3. Niall Ferguson _ Colossus: The Rise and Fall of

    Power, let us not forget, is not just about being able to buy whatever you want; that is mere wealth. Power is about being able to get whatever you want at below the market price.
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  4. Niall Ferguson _ Civilization: The West and the

    Inequality did increase as a result of the Industrial Revolution. Between 1780 and 1830 output per labourer in the UK grew over 25 per cent but wages rose barely 5 per cent. The proportion of national income going to the top percentile of the population rose from 25 per cent in 1801 to 35 per cent in 1848. In Paris in 1820, around 9 per cent of the population were classified as 'proprietors and rentiers' {living from their investments} and owned 41 per cent of recorded wealth. By 1911 their share had risen to 52 per cent. In Prussia, the share of income going to the top 5 per cent rose from 21 per cent in 1854 to 27 per cent in 1896 and to 43 per cent in 1913.29 Industrial societies, it seems clear, grew more unequal over the course of the nineteenth century.
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  5. Niall Ferguson _ The Square and the Tower:

    our species should really be known as Homo dictyous {'network man'} because – to quote the sociologists Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler – 'our brains seem to have been built for social networks'.
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  6. Niall Ferguson _ Kissinger: Vol 1: The

    The aim of Cold War competition in the third world was not to win a contest between rival models of economic development but above all to "fill{...} a spiritual void," for "even Communism has made many more converts through the theological quality of Marxism than through the materialistic aspect on which it prides itself.
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  7. Niall Ferguson _ Empire: How Britain Made the

    Sir Richard Turnbull, the penultimate Governor of Aden, once told Labour politician Denis Healey that 'when the British Empire finally sank beneath the waves of history, it would leave behind it only two monuments: one was the game of Association Football, the other was the expression "Fuck off".'
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  8. Niall Ferguson _ Empire: How Britain Made the

    In the end, the British sacrificed her Empire to stop the Germans, Japanese and Italians from keeping theirs. Did not that sacrifice alone expunge all the Empire's other sins?
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  9. Niall Ferguson _ La guerra del mundo

    Aunque Chamberlain seguía negándose a escuchar el consejo de Churchill de vincular a Rusia al tratado anglofrancés, Halifax hizo pública una nota de prensa afirmando que, en el caso de un ataque alemán a Checoslovaquia, «Francia se verá obligada a acudir en su ayuda, y no cabe duda de que Gran Bretaña y Rusia estarán al lado de Francia». Lejos de ir en contra de un supuesto pacifismo popular, esto reflejaba exactamente el talante predominante entre la opinión pública británica, que en ningún momento se había mostrado tan abúlica como Chamberlain y su entorno."
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  10. Niall Ferguson _ Civilization: The West and the

    by the second decade of the twentieth century the gap in living standards between London and Beijing was around six to one, compared with two to one in the eighteenth century.36
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  11. Niall Ferguson _ The Square and the Tower:

    Just as global networks of communication and transportation had made the mass migrations of the late nineteenth century possible,6 so political networks of populism and nativism sprang into life to resist them.
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  12. Niall Ferguson _ The Square and the Tower:

    American legislators scarcely rested until Chinese immigration to the United States had been altogether stopped. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 suspended immigration of Chinese for ten years, introduced 'certificates of registration' for departing workers {effectively re-entry permits}, required Chinese officials to vet travellers from Asia, and for the first time in US history created an offence of illegal immigration, with the possibility of deportation as a part of the penalty.
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