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Niall Ferguson asks if different systems of law are key to economic success.

The historian Niall Ferguson delivers a lecture at Gresham College in the heart of legal London, addressing the relationship between the nature of law and economic success.

He examines the rule of law in comparative terms, asking how far the common law's claims to superiority over other systems are credible.

Are we living through a time of creeping legal degeneration in the English-speaking world?

Producer: Jane Beresford.

53 minutes

Broadcasts

  • Tue 3 Jul 2012 22:05GMT
  • Sat 7 Jul 2012 18:05GMT

The Reith Lectures on Radio 4

Archive recordings from the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's flagship annual lecture series going back to 1948