The Ascent Of Money Has Been Essential

In The Old Days It Would Have Been A Relatively Simple Matter To Have Checked Hitler's Territorial Ambitions. All You'd Have Needed Would Have Been The 1914 Combination Of Britain, France And Russia. Indeed, If Such An Alliance Had Acted Decisively To Defend Czechoslovakia In 1938, Hitler Might Even Have Been Overthrown By His Own Military. But It Was Not To Be.

For 500 Years The West Patented Six Killer Applications That Set It Apart. The First To Download Them Was Japan. Over The Last Century, One Asian Country After Another Has Downloaded These Killer Apps- Competition, Modern Science, The Rule Of Law And Private Property Rights, Modern Medicine, The Consumer Society And The Work Ethic. Those Six Things Are The Secret Sauce Of Western Civilization.

If Young Men Have Jobs - Or The Prospects Of Jobs - They Are Less Likely To Take Up Arms, They Are Less Likely To Join The Resistance.

Today, The Average Korean Works A Thousand Hours More A Year Than The Average German. A Thousand. ... That Is The End Of The Great Divergence.

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