John Rapley

Durante los últimos tres siglos, Occidente extendió inexorablemente su domino sobre el planeta. Pero, de repente, con el cambio de milenio, este rumbo parece haberse invertido. Enfrentado a un escenario de estancamiento economico, division politica y retroceso demografico, Occidente parece precipitarse hacia un acelerado declive. No es la primera vez que la historia asiste a un ascenso y a una caida tan vertiginosos. El Imperio romano siguio una trayectoria similar, desde el poder cuasi omnimodo hasta la desintegracion, algo que, tal y como este libro argumenta, es mas que una curiosa coincidencia historica. Desde el 399 al 1999, los ciclos vitales de los imperios siembran las semillas de su inevitable destruccion. Y si la era de la dominacion mundial de Occidente ha llegado a su fin, ¿ahora que? En ¿Por que caen los imperios? Roma, Estados Unidos y el futuro de Occidente, el historiador Peter Heather, experto en la Tardoantiguedad, y el economista politico John Rapley exploran los extraños paralelismos y las no menos esclarecedoras diferencias entre el declive y caida de Roma y la crisis que vivimos en Occidente, yendo mas alla de los topicos familiares acerca de invasiones barbaras y decadencia de la civilizacion, para extraer nuevas lecciones de la histor

Durante los últimos tres siglos, Occidente extendió inexorablemente su domino sobre el planeta. Pero, de repente, con el cambio de milenio, este rumbo parece haberse invertido. Enfrentado a un escenario de estancamiento economico, division politica y retroceso demografico, Occidente parece precipitarse hacia un acelerado declive. No es la primera vez que la historia asiste a un ascenso y a una caida tan vertiginosos. El Imperio romano siguio una trayectoria similar, desde el poder cuasi omnimodo hasta la desintegracion, algo que, tal y como este libro argumenta, es mas que una curiosa coincidencia historica. Desde el 399 al 1999, los ciclos vitales de los imperios siembran las semillas de su inevitable destruccion. Y si la era de la dominacion mundial de Occidente ha llegado a su fin, ¿ahora que? En ¿Por que caen los imperios? Roma, Estados Unidos y el futuro de Occidente, el historiador Peter Heather, experto en la Tardoantiguedad, y el economista politico John Rapley exploran los extraños paralelismos y las no menos esclarecedoras diferencias entre el declive y caida de Roma y la crisis que vivimos en Occidente, yendo mas alla de los topicos familiares acerca de invasiones barbaras y decadencia de la civilizacion, para extraer nuevas lecciones de la historia antigua. Si el ascenso de Roma al dominio mundial sirve para comprender el auge del Occidente moderno, su colapso permite identificar las claves de dicho proceso, y reflexionar sobre el surgimiento de pujantes periferias que desplazan al antes todopoderoso centro. En un lucido y penetrante dialogo, los autores emplean la historia romana para considerar el momento actual y los posibles escenarios que se nos abren. A la postre, tal y como nos explica el pasado, el futuro de Occidente dependera de las elecciones politicas y economicas que se nosotros y nuestros lideres tomemos en los años cruciales que se avecinan.

Imagine one day you went to a cash-machine and found your money was gone. You rushed to your branch, where a teller said that overnight people had stopped believing in money, and it all vanished. Seem incredible? It happened, and it could happen again.Twilight of the Money Gods is the story of economics, told not as the science it strove to be, but as the religion it became. Over two centuries, it searched for the hidden codes which would reveal the path to a promised land of material abundance. While its prophets, from Adam Smith to John Maynard Keynes and Milton Friedman, concerned themselves with the human condition, its priesthood gradually grew remote from its followers, until it lost sight of their tribulations. Today, amid a crisis of faith in their expertise, we must re-imagine an economics for a new era - one filled with both danger and opportunity.

Nos últimos três séculos, o Ocidente passou a dominar o planeta. Então, próximo ao início do novo milênio, a história sofreu uma reviravolta dramática. Diante da estagnação econômica e da divisão pol

Excellent Aaron BastaniProvocative ... A entertaining, sweeping readFinancial Times Every leader comes to power promising growth: think back to the campaigns of Boris, Truss, Sunak, Starmer, Trump. Yet real-term income hasnt improved in the UK since 2008. Across the West, growth has stagnated for well over a decade, leading to cost of living crises, political instability and rising social tensions.Is real economic growth still possible? And with the climate emergency accelerating beyond repair, should we still be pushing for it?In Icarus Economics, acclaimed economist John Rapley argues that the problem of growth is inherently tied up with the climate crisis. We often assume that poor countries will bear the brunt of climate change, pandemics, and other exogenous shocks, but this book argues the opposite: western societies have more wealth and capital to lose and are less inherently resilient. In this book, he shows us how rich countries can grow their own economies by helping poor countries to decarbonise - and in the process, mitigate the effects of climate change.

What can the fall of Rome teach us about the decline of the West today? A historian and a political economist, both experts in their field, investigateOver the last three centuries, the West rose to dominate the planet. Then, suddenly, around the turn of the millennium, history reversed. Faced with economic stagnation and internal political division, the West has found itself in rapid decline.This is not the first time the global order has witnessed such a dramatic rise and fall. The Roman Empire followed a similar arc from dizzying power to disintegration - a fact that is more than a strange historical coincidence. In Why Empires Fall, historian Peter Heather and political economist John Rapley use this Roman past to think anew about the contemporary West, its state of crisis, and what paths we could take out of it.In this exceptional, transformative intervention, Heather and Rapley explore the uncanny parallels - and productive differences - between the two cases, moving beyond the familiar tropes of invading barbarians and civilizational decay to learn new lessons from ancient history. From 399 to 1999, the life cycles of empires, they argue, sow the seeds of their inevitable destruction. The era of western global domination has reached its end - so what comes next?

What can the fall of Rome teach us about the decline of the West today A historian and a political economist both experts in their field investigateOver the last three centuries the West rose to dominate the planet Then suddenly around the turn of the millennium history reversed Faced with economic stagnation and internal political division the West has found itself in rapid decline This is not the first time the global order has witnessed such a dramatic rise and fall The Roman Empire followed a similar arc from dizzying power to disintegration a fact that is more than a strange historical coincidence In Why Empires Fall historian Peter Heather and political economist John Rapley use this Roman past to think anew about the contemporary West its state of crisis and what paths we could take out of it In this exceptional transformative intervention Heather and Rapley explore the uncanny parallels and productive differences between the two cases moving beyond the familiar tropes of invading barbarians and civilizational decay to learn new lessons from ancient history From 399 to 1999 the life cycles of empires they argue sow the seeds of their inevitable destruction The era of western global domination has reached its end so what comes next