How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations

“He looks back to civilizations over the last millennium and examines why they have stalled when it comes to progress. For example, he writes about China losing its way after the Song Dynasty. Having been a great, inventive nation, it becomes bogged down in bureaucracy…There’s a failure to adapt to technology, which inevitably dooms a civilization if it can’t find a way through it. So it’s a heavyweight book that gives you a grand historical perspective on the key question of how to guarantee growth and continued technological advance.” Read more...

The Best Business Books of 2025: the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award

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