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...July, made a number of points. In his keynote address he reiterated his most recent thesis: the United States is an empire in denial, and this denial is at the root of its failures. In the plenary session, he took his argument further: Empire “delivers the goods??—economic growth rests on the kinds of institutions that empire makes possible. Ferguson’s current work includes the calculation of investments made in the British empire, investments that would have been inaccessible to those countries not under the British crown. Ferguson points...
...still a great person.” We may laugh at this naiveté, but this is not much different from whitewashing the “bad” of empire with the “good” of empire, or conflating “the goods?? with “good.” Suggesting that empire is appropriate today is to perpetuate this same myth of imperialism. History is too complex, and basic tenets of human dignity too important, for a good historian to be reduced to that...
...hype fever, startups were going to take over the world in 18 months, and anyone who wasn’t burning cash by the barrel to get an early lead was dead meat. Consider Kozmo.com. Their idea—Web-based, immediate delivery of videos, food and certain household goods??certainly encountered strong demand, especially on college campuses like ours. But the company didn’t take steps to conserve cash and reach profitability. It instituted a minimum-order requirement only a few months before its death, and by then it was too late to save...