Niall wrote "the ascent of Money"
In this talk he gives what he was thinking when he wrote his latest book, Civisation. The premise is to remedy flaws in British teaching of history by presenting 6 killer apps which allowed the West to dominate the last 500 years.
The talk is from Friday 4 March 2011
The killer apps are:
competition
science
property owning democracy
modern medicine
the consumer society
protestant work ethic
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