The Economic Decline of Empires

A Google Book: The Economic Decline of Empires
Edited by Carlo M. Cipolla

I show here the first 2½ paragraphs of the Editor's Intro:

If I didn't think it important, I wouldn't post it.

If you want to prevent the decline of the US as a nation, or as an empire, or as a civilization -- whichever way you see it -- you need to act before it is too late. You, too, should start a blog that no one reads.