Authors:

  • Niall Ferguson

Excerpt

GEM13: Niall Ferguson on the global economic conundrum. Niall Ferguson, November 28, 2013, Video. "At the 2013 Global Empowerment Meeting, Niall Ferguson attempts to make sense of the current economic situation from a historical perspective. Are we re-visiting the 1970s when rich countries stagnated in an economic morass, while natural resource exporters boomed? And what is to come: will our era be followed by a decade like the 1980s, when developed countries rebounded and natural resource economies collapsed? Or, are there other historical parallels more enlightening for today's context?...." Link verified August 21, 2014