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Empire
A splendid history... If Americans want to be convinced of the benefits of empire, as well as apprised of its costs, they need merely pick up Ferguson's dazzling book.-Weekly Standard.
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Kissinger
A definitive portrait of the American statesman, based on unprecedented access to his private papers, challenges common misconceptions to trace Kissinger's beliefs to philosophical idealism.
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A Unified Europe? Don't Count On It
WHEN TRYING to imagine an ideal map of Europe in 1857, the Italian nationalist Giuseppe Mazzini imagined 11 nation states. By coincidence, 11 European states at the end of the 20th Century have succeeded in creating a monetary union. However, the \"Euroland\" to which American bankers now habitually refer bears little relation to Mazzini's blueprint. In 1872, when Mazzini died, the map of Europe was dominated by four multinational empires-the British, Russian, Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman (Turkey)-and five nation states, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden and Germany. Of these nine entities, two were moribund: Turkey and Spain. Sweden had been a power two centuries before but was no longer. Then there were the smaller states: Portugal, Holland, Belgium, Denmark, Switzerland, plus a few statelets like Luxembourg. Change in the last years of Mazzini's life was most rapid in the Balkans, where Romania and Bulgaria were bidding to join Greece and Serbia as independent states.
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Doom : the politics of catastrophe
\"Setting the great crisis of 2020 in broad historical perspective, Niall Ferguson challenges the conventional wisdom that our failure to cope better with disaster was solely a crisis of political leadership, as opposed to a more profound systemic problem. Disasters are by their very nature hard to predict. Pandemics, like earthquakes, wildfires, financial crises and wars, are not normally distributed; there is no cycle of history to help us anticipate the next catastrophe. But when disaster strikes, we ought to be better prepared than the Romans were when Vesuvius erupted, or medieval Italians when the Black Death struck. We have science on our side, after all. Yet the responses of a number of developed countries, including the United States, to a new pathogen from China were badly bungled. Why? The facile answer is to blame poor leadership. While populist leaders have certainly performed poorly in the face of the pandemic, more profound problems have been exposed by COVID-19. Only when we understand the central challenge posed by disaster in history can we see that this was also a failure of an administrative state and economic elites that had grown myopic over much longer than just a few years. Why were so many Cassandras for so long ignored? Why did only some countries learn the right lessons from SARS and MERS? Why do appeals to \"the science\" often turn out to be magical thinking? Drawing from multiple disciplines, including history, economics, public health, and network science, Doom is a global postmortem for a plague year. In books going back nearly twenty years, including Colossus, The Great Degeneration, and The Square and the Tower, Niall Ferguson has studied the pathologies that afflict modern America, from imperial hubris to bureaucratic sclerosis and online schism. Doom is the lesson of history that this country--indeed the West as a whole--urgently needs to learn--if we want to avoid the doom of irreversible decline\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Inside the house of money : top hedge fund traders on profiting in the global markets
New commentary and updates to enlightening interviews with today's top global macro hedge fund managers
This updated paperback edition of Inside the House of Money lifts the veil on the typically opaque world of hedge funds offering a rare glimpse at how today's highest paid money managers approach their craft. Now with new commentary, author, Steve Drobny takes you even further into the hedge fund industry. He demystifies how these star traders make billions for their well-heeled investors, revealing their theories, strategies and approaches to markets.
Whereas some still maintain that rationality permeates financial markets, Drobny captures a different dimension, showing how the unquantifiable human forces of emotion and intuition are also at play. Along the way, readers get an inside look at firsthand trading experiences through some of the major world financial crises of the last few decades.
* Discusses how no market or instrument is out of bounds for these elite global macro hedge fund managers
* Offers unique and illuminating insight into an inaccessible and sometimes downright secretive world
* Written by respected industry expert Steven Drobny
Highly accessible and filled with in-depth expert opinion, this updated paperback edition of Inside the House of Money is a must-read for financial professionals and anyone else interested in understanding how greed, fear, and the human forces of emotion drive world markets.
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