The Japanese Co-Prosperity Zone began as a racist utopia and ended as a cross between an abbatoir, a plantation and a brothel.
Niall FergusonIf young men have jobs - or the prospects of jobs - they are less likely to take up arms, they are less likely to join the resistance.
Niall FergusonToday, 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 FergusonFor 500 years the West patented six killer applications that set it apart. The first to download them was Japan. Over the last century, one Asian country after another has downloaded these killer apps- competition, modern science, the rule of law and private property rights, modern medicine, the consumer society and the work ethic. Those six things are the secret sauce of Western civilization.
Niall Ferguson