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Is America Falling Behind?

December 2023
1min read


This is the question posed by Paul Kennedy’s book The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers , and it’s enough on people’s minds to put Kennedy’s long, careful study on the best-seller lists. In an incisive interview, the economist Robert Heilbroner examines Kennedy’s views on what lessons the decline of imperial Spain and Britain may have for the United States.

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