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Niall Ferguson: Writing History with Data
"World of DaaS"
The United States of Amnesia
It seems that most people in the world are more interested in history than Americans. What struck me most when I moved here which was around 2002 was the tendency of decision makers to base their decisions on different disciplines like political science or economics. And it's a sort of failure to institutionalize history, which means that the government has has a kind of structural amnesia and each administration seems as if it has to learn by making its own mistakes. But there's an institutional problem at the academic level but I'll say one thing in defensive Americans. When I go out into the big wide world and talk about my books. It's a significant section of the American public it tends to be older that is
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