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On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Pejman Yousefzadeh and Kevin Holtsberry are joined by Ian Morris, the author of Why the West Rules–for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Futureto discuss that while it is difficult to tell the future, geography helps significantly shape destiny, how it explains the rise of the China, and the possibility that it may overtake the West.

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