No Civilization, No Matter How Mighty It

The Ascent Of Money Has Been Essential To The Ascent Of Man.

The Rise Of The West Is, Quite Simply, The Pre-eminent Historical Phenomenon Of The Second Half Of The Second Millennium After Christ.

If The Financial System Has A Defect, It Is That It Reflects And Magnifies What We Human Beings Are Like. Money Amplifies Our Tendency To Overreact, To Swing From Exuberance When Things Are Going Well To Deep Depression When They Go Wrong. Booms And Busts Are Products, At Root, Of Our Emotional Volatility.

Why Did The Germans And Japanese Keep Fighting After 1943 When Every Rational Hope Of Victory Had Disappeared?

The Armenian Genocide Showed What Could Happen When Empires Were Beaten Into Nations.