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Keynote: The West and The Rest

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Main Points

  • The West’s rapid rise to dominance after 1500 was helped by six so-called killer apps
  • Non-Western societies have since downloaded the apps and have made big progress as a result
  • By contrast, the Western world, which appears to be deleting the apps, is losing competitiveness
  • The ‘Great Divergence’ has now been replaced by the ‘Great Re-convergence’
  • The West must reinstall and update the killer apps, reboot or risk being left behind
 
Professor Niall Ferguson

Professor Niall Ferguson, Historian and Author, Laurence A.Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University and William Ziegler Professor, Harvard Business School

Niall Ferguson is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University and William Ziegler Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He is also a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a senior research fellow at Jesus College, Oxford. More

 
 
 
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