{"product_id":"the-great-degeneration-by-niall-ferguson-9780141975238","title":"The Great Degeneration","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNiall Ferguson's\u003c\/i\u003e pithy, digestible polemic on the decline of the West.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Great Degeneration\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful—and in places polemical—indictment of an era of negligence and complacency. While the Arab world struggles to adopt democracy, and while China struggles to move from economic liberalisation to the rule of law, Europeans and Americans alike are frittering away the institutional inheritance of centuries. To arrest the degeneration of the West's once dominant civilisation, Ferguson warns, will take heroic leadership and radical reform.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book is based on Niall Ferguson's BBC Radio 4 Reith Lectures 2012, which were broadcast under the title \u003ci\u003eThe Rule of Law and Its Enemies\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46342760825068,"sku":"9780141975238","price":24.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/14554363482238.jpg?v=1743940818","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/the-great-degeneration-by-niall-ferguson-9780141975238","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}