The British welfare state, it seemed, had removed the incentives without which a capitalist economy simply could not function: the carrot of serious money for those who strove, the stick of hardship f...
The Bolshevik newspaper Krasnaya Gazeta declared: ‘Without mercy, without sparing, we will kill our enemies in scores of hundreds. Let them be thousands, let them drown themselves in their own blood....
Systems can be fast, open, or secure, but only two of these three at a time.’51 The threat to world order can be summed up as ‘very fast networks x artificial intelligence x black boxes x the New Cast...
Some problems can only be resolved by network analysis.
Sin embargo, todos estos recursos del Estado administrativo imponen sobre el sector privado unas cargas que acaban por reducir la tasa de crecimiento y la creación de empleo.[10] La desigualdad interg...
Original Design.’ The bell curve that we encountered in Chapter 3 represents the normal distribution, in which 68.2 per cent of outcomes are within one standard deviation (plus or minus) of the mean.
Nowadays he is best remembered for the Fibonacci sequence of numbers (0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21 . . .), in which each successive number is the sum of the previous two, and the ratio between a number...
Machiavelli asks whether it be better to be loved than feared or feared than loved? He answers that one should wish to be both, but, because it is difficult to unite them in one person, it is much saf...
Lo que de verdad llevó a Estados Unidos a Oriente Próximo en los años cincuenta no fue Israel o el petróleo, sino el miedo a la Unión Soviética; para ser exactos, miedo de que los rusos pudieran sacar...
Lo más desconcertante, sin embargo, fue el fracaso de Estados Unidos en lograr una intervención exitosa en Cuba, un país que era más cercano geográficamente, más prometedor en términos económicos y má...
Las tasas de desempleo en la mayoría de los países europeos son también marcadamente más altas que las de Estados Unidos, más del 10 por ciento en Bélgica y España, más de dos veces la tasa de Estados...
La carrera de Morgan ilustra perfectamente el modo como se construyó el imperio, que consistió en la transición de la piratería al poder político, hecho que cambiaría el mundo para siempre.
La carrera de Morgan es el clásico ejemplo del modo como se inició el imperio británico, empleando a individuos emprendedores así como fuerzas regulares.
In the early 1950s, Harold Macmillan declared that the choice facing the country was between ‘the slide into a shoddy and slushy Socialism (as a second-rate power), or the march to the third British E...
In the Philippines, formalizing home ownership was until recently a 168-step process involving fifty-three public and private agencies and taking between thirteen and twenty-five years.
In marked contrast, Ottoman scientific progress was non-existent in this same period. The best explanation for this divergence was the unlimited sovereignty of religion in the Muslim world. Towards th...
In 1940, under Churchill’s inspired, indomitable, incomparable leadership, the Empire had stood alone against the truly evil imperialism of Hitler. Even if it did not last for the thousand years that...
For some readers, I dare say, the word ‘institution’ still conjures up a Victorian vision of lunatic asylums: poor old Niall, he’s in an institution now. That is not the kind of institution I mean. I...
European sense. No one can predict how it will end because there is no precedent for it.
En 1863, en Newcastle, el doctor James Hunt había dejado consternada a la audiencia de una reunión de la British Association for the Advancement of Science, al afirmar que los «negros» eran una especi...