The Great DegenerationNiall Ferguson's pithy, digestible polemic on the decline of the West. The Great Degeneration is a powerfuland in places polemicalindictment 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