Thursday, August 23, 2012

Niall Ferguson on the rule of law and its economic consequences

Harvard economic historian Niall Ferguson gave the BBC's Reith Lectures for 2012. The general theme was  The Rule of Law and Its Enemies: 2012. In his third lecture, The Landscape of the Law,  Ferguson asks "... what, if anything, developing countries like China can learn from the West about the rule of law." 42 min, transcript available.