Nial Ferguson (2011): "Civilization. The Six Killer Aps of Western Power"
Ferguson har også formidlet bogen gennem denne serie i 6 x 45 minutter på BBC:
This BBC series is highly recommendable: Based on Nial Ferguson's book "Civilization. The Six Killer Aps of Western Power"
"In 1412 Europe was a miserable backwater, while the Orient was home to dazzling civilizations. so how did the West come to dominate the rest?".
Ferguson argues that these 6 killer applications did it:
COMPETITION: How Europes small, piratical states built modern capitalism throgh competing each other & in each state.
SCIENCE: How innovation gave the Military edge.
PROSPERITY RIGHTS: How the laws of private property built the United States.
MEDICINE: How colonization transformed the world's health.
THE CONSUMER SOCIETY: How shppingmmade the industrial revolution.
THE WORH ETHIC: How western religious ideas brought it all together.
He argues, that it depends on ourselves whether we still have these winning tools, or China will triumph!
Link to YouTube /playlist
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Dette blogindlæg supplerer afsnittet ”Opsamling af den uddannelsespolitiske udvikling siden 1980érne”
i mit kapitel Hedegaard, E. (2017): "Uddannelsespolitik og globalisering - uddannelsesreformer i en usikker tidsalder"
i bogen P. Ø Andersen & Tomas Ellegaard : "Klassisk og moderne pædagogisk teori". København: Hans Reitzels Forlag.
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