{"id":63,"date":"2011-09-19T20:09:13","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T19:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedissenter.co.uk\/?p=654"},"modified":"2011-09-19T20:09:13","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T19:09:13","slug":"a-narrowing-gap-between-east-and-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www1.thedissenter.co.uk\/?p=63","title":{"rendered":"A narrowing gap between East and West."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a TED presentation, historian Niall Ferguson looks at \u20196 killer Apps\u2019 that gained \u2018The West\u2019 economic success to date. With economy to the fore of political debate (or fudge) at the moment, useful to look at some of the foundations of the West\u2019s economic success. A useful hint too at the changes that are shifting the balance in favour of the \u2018The East\u2019; perhaps, perhaps not so much as statistics suggest. What does seem clear is that the basic tenets of \u2018growth\u2019 and \u2018prosperity\u2019 are more widespread than ever and the economic divergence between nations is narrowing, to greater or lesser extent.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-654\"><\/span>The six killer apps are:<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0\u00a0 Competition<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0\u00a0 The Scientific Revolution<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0\u00a0 Property Rights<\/p>\n<p>4.\u00a0\u00a0 Modern Medicine<\/p>\n<p>5.\u00a0 The Consumer Society<\/p>\n<p>6.\u00a0 The Work Ethic.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Niall Ferguson: The 6 killer apps of prosperity\" width=\"540\" height=\"304\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xpnFeyMGUs8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Plenty to think about.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedissenter.co.uk\/2011\/09\/a-narrowing-gap-between-east-and-west\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">A narrowing gap between East and West.<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedissenter.co.uk\" rel=\"nofollow\">thedissenter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a TED presentation, historian Niall Ferguson looks at \u20196 killer Apps\u2019 that gained \u2018The West\u2019 economic success to date. With economy to the fore of political debate (or fudge) at the moment, useful to look at some of the foundations of the West\u2019s economic success. A useful hint too at the changes that are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www1.thedissenter.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www1.thedissenter.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www1.thedissenter.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www1.thedissenter.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www1.thedissenter.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www1.thedissenter.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www1.thedissenter.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www1.thedissenter.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www1.thedissenter.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}