Crisis: or an explanation on the origins of the decline of the West
Christopher Marlowe’s play Doctor Faustus was written around 1592 and was based on an earlier German work about Dr Faustus, a talented German scholar at Wittenburg University who was frustrated by the limits More...
An American parable: The rise of Venetian inequality and the decline of prosperity
A new book, Why Nations Fail: the Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty, looks at the historical roots as to why some countries are rich and others are poor. As with all books of this genre, it owes a great More...
What happens when China becomes the largest economy in the world?
According to the OECD, China is due to overtake the US economy as the largest in the world in three years. By 2030 it predicts that China will account for 25% of the world’s economy. That is impressive. Detractors More...
Why do we need the military? Securing energy supplies and trade routes
History Future Now looks at our military expenditure and asks two basic questions: first, what is the purpose of the military and second, if we did things differently would we need to spend so much on the military? More...
How to stop the jobs crisis and bring jobs back home
The Great Recession has been going on for four years, with no end in sight. A great part of the problem is financial: we borrowed too much money for too long and now don’t have the ability to pay off our More...