… on robbing the young and what he really meant by that crack about Keynes
A new book explores what the East learned from both the brutality and the economic success of the West
Book by Niall Ferguson
WELLS: So which is it?
Tina Brown’s redesigned Newsweek is a mixed bag, but more promising on the whole than the glum tract that had been appearing under that title. One of her coups is the addition of historian Niall Ferguson as a columnist. Ferguson writes bestselling books and is a hot ticket on the speaker circuit, but I’m starting to worry he’s not quite cut out for shorter formats.
Digging holes and filling them back in won’t work. Growth requires investment in ideas.