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AcclaimedhistorianNiallFergusonoffersaradicalnewhistoryofthelinksbetweenpoliticsandeconomics,drawingunsettlingconclusionsaboutthefutureofcapitalismanddemocracy..Conventionalwisdomhaslongclaimedthateconomicchangeistheprimemoverofpoliticalchange,whetherintheageofindustryorInternet.Butisit?Fergusonthinksitishightimewere-examinedthelink-thenexus,inThomasCarlyle''sphrase-betweeneconomicsandpolitics.Hiscentralargumentisthattheconflictingimpulsesofsex,violence,andpoweraretogethermorepowerfulthanmoney.*AmongFerguson''sstartlingclaimsare:*Nothinghasdonemoretotransformtheworldeconomythanwar,yetwarsthemselvesdonothaveprimarilyeconomiccauses.*Thepresentageofeconomicglobalizationiscoinciding-paradoxically-withpoliticalandmilitaryfragmentation.*Financialcrisesarefrequentlycausedbyunforeseenpoliticaleventsratherthaneconomicfluctuations.*Therelationshipbetweenprosperityandgovernmentpopularityislargelyillusory.*Sincepoliticalandeconomicliberalizationarenotself-perpetuating,theso-calledtriumphofdemocracyworldwidemaybeshort-lived.*Aboldsynthesisofpoliticalhistoryandmoderneconomictheory,CashNexuswilltransformthelandscapeofmodernhistoryanddrawchallengingconclusionsabouttheprospectsofbothcapitalismanddemocracy.*.
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NiallFergusonisFellowandTutorinModernHistoryatJesusCollege,Oxford.HeistheauthorofThePityofWarandVirtualHistory.
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