The Square and the Tower: Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power Postcards From the reviews: "

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and remains a much-loved

When Dane wakes up

A grave warning

An Economist Best Book of the Year

The Square and the Tower: Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power Postcards From the reviews: "THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Silicon Valley needed a history lesson and Ferguson has provided it' Eric Schmidt Most history is about the people at the top of the towers of power. But what if the real action is in the social networks down below, in the town squares? Niall Ferguson, the international bestselling author of Empire, The Ascent of Money and Civilization, brilliantly recasts past and present as an unending contest between hierarchies and