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  “Today, the average Korean works a thousand hours more a year than the average German. A thousand. … That is the end of the Great Divergence.” — Niall Ferguson

  Niall Ferguson: The 6 killer apps of prosperity

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  “It’s our generation that is witnessing the end of Western predominance. The average American used to be more than 20 times richer than the average Chinese. Now it’s just five times, and soon it will be 2.5 times.” — Niall Ferguson

  Niall Ferguson: The 6 killer apps of prosperity

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  “The West may collapse very suddenly. Complex civilizations do that, because they operate, most of the time, on the edge of chaos.” — Niall Ferguson

  Niall Ferguson: The 6 killer apps of prosperity

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  “Nineteen percent of the world’s population today — Westerners — own two-thirds of its wealth.” — Niall Ferguson

  Niall Ferguson: The 6 killer apps of prosperity

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  “The financial crisis is really a relatively small historic phenomenon, which has accelerated this huge shift, which ends half a millennium of Western ascendancy.” — Niall Ferguson

  Niall Ferguson: The 6 killer apps of prosperity

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