Robert Skidelsky, a member of the British House of Lords and Professor Emeritus of Political Economy at Warwick University, was a non-executive director of the private Russian oil company PJSC Russneft from 2016 to 2021. The author of a three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes, he began his political career in the Labour party, became the Conservative Party’s spokesman for Treasury affairs in the House of Lords, and was eventually forced out of the Conservative Party for his opposition to NATO’s intervention in Kosovo in 1999. He is the author of The Machine Age: An Idea, a History, a Warning (Allen Lane, 2023).
伦敦—巴黎恐怖分子屠夫再次突显二十一世纪上空的阴云,让共产主义崩溃给欧洲和西方带来的希望之光黯淡下来。危险与日俱增,值得我们深思目前的情况。
尽管预言并不真实,但一致的出发点应该是下降的预期。莫利调查机构(Ipsos MORI)社会研究所报告称:“在西方大部,下一代人已不再将更美好的未来看成天经地义。”
1918年,奥斯瓦尔德·史宾格勒(Oswald Spengler)出版了《西方的衰落》(The Decline of the West)。如今“衰落”一词已成为禁忌。我们的出版商用“挑战”来代替它,而经济学家的说法则是“长期停滞”。语言在变,但西方文明时间(和金钱)欠债不变。
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