Profile:
Full name: Niall Ferguson
Area of interest: Politics and Economics - expert on the origins of conflict in the 20th century
Journals/Organisation: Financial Times | Los Angeles Times
Email: nfergus@fas.harvard.edu
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Website: http://www.niallferguson.com
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Networks: https://twitter.com/#!/nfergus | http://www.linkedin.com/pub/10/7b2/92a
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Biography:
About: http://www.niallferguson.com/site/FERG/Templates/General2.aspx?pageid=5&cc=GB
Education: The Glasgow Academy | Magdalen College, Oxford (Demy): 1st-class honours degree
Career: NiallFerguson.com biography
Current position/role: Financial Times contributing editor
Other roles/Main role: Professor of History at Harvard University; senior research fellow at Jesus College, Oxford University: senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University
- Laurence Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University - teaches in the History Department and the Harvard Business School as the William Ziegler Professor of Business Administration. Also holds fellowships at Jesus College, University of Oxford, and at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. (Previously John Herzog Chair of Financial History at New York University (NYU), Professor of Modern History at University of Oxford)
Other activities: Hired as a consultant by GLG Partners, Hedge Fund, September 2007 (source: City AM 28/09/07)
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Video: Regularly contributes to television and radio
- Channel 4: China: Triumph and Turmoil, examines China's ascendancy, and asks what the future holds for the world's most populous country and its relationship with the rest of the world, March 2012
- Channel 4: Civilization: Is the West History?, March 2011
- Channel 4: The War of the World: A new history of the 20th century (2006)
- wrote/presented six-part history of the British Empire for Channel 4 (2003)
- documentary based on Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire, Channel 4 (2004)
and see: NiallFerguson.com Film/TV clips
Controversy/Criticism: Relationship between democracy and economics: Lecturer ignites controversy in talk, Adrian O'Connor
Awards/Honours: Paper and Iron: Hamburg Business and German Politics in the Era of Inflation 1897-1927 (Cambridge University Press, 1995), short-listed for the History Today Book of the Year award; The World’s Banker: The History of the House of Rothschild (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) won the Wadsworth Prize for Business History and was short-listed for the Jewish Quarterly/Wingate Literary Award as well as the American National Jewish Book Award
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Other: Time magazine named him as one of the world’s hundred most influential people, 2004
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Books & Debate:
Latest work: Civilization: the west and the rest OCLC704199921, February 2011, review here by Dominic Lawson in The Sunday Times
and see: NiallFerguson.com: bookstore
Speaking/Appearances: Centre for Policy Studies Ruttenberg Memorial Lecture: Conservatism and the Crisis: A Transatlantic Trilemma (download lecture here) - 24th March, 2009
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Articles: 2010
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Articles: 2009
- The decade the world tilted east - The realisation that the yawning US current account deficit was increasingly being financed by Asian central banks, with the Chinese moving into pole position, was, for me at least, the eureka moment of the decade - 28th December
- How to take moral hazard out of banking - with Laurence Kotlikoff - 3rd December
- Why a Lehman deal would not have saved us - If only Lehman Brothers had been saved, all would have been for the best in the best of all possible worlds. Actually no. A decision to bail out the bank would almost certainly have had worse consequences than letting Dick Fuld and his company go under - 15th September
- A runaway deficit may soon test Obama’s luck - Six months in, ‘Felix the Prez’ still has the look of a lucky, two-term president. But that could change if voters become even more disenchanted with the legislative branch and start blaming the president for the looming fiscal train-wreck - 11th August
- The trillion dollar question: China or America? - Who is going to come out of the economic crisis stronger and with the whip hand - China or America - 2nd June
- How economists can misunderstand the crisis - To understand the global financial crisis one must put it in a historical context and not take as gospel the theories of economists such as Keynes - The Daily Telegraph, 30th May
- This financial crisis does have a Conservative solution - The combined effects of globalisation and the financial crisis have left parties of the Right with a challenging three-way choice - The Daily Telegraph, 24th March
- Beyond the age of leverage: new banks must arise - There is a better way to go – in the opposite direction. The aim must be not to increase debt but to reduce it - 3rd February
- The great liquidity crisis – 94 years ago - Set in the inter-war period, this timely story should remind central bankers on what can go wrong when they achieve only the semblance of co-operation - 3rd January
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Articles: 2008
- An imaginary retrospective of 2009 - Few foresaw the credit crunch of 2008, when people finally gave up trying to predict what lay ahead. For the new year, Niall Ferguson offers his fictional review - 27th December 2008
- The American Future - This historical rhapsody, which shares Kerouac’s almost inebriated eloquence, is a reflection on the essence of America with a bedrock of deep knowledge behind the bebop prose - 3rd October 2008
- What price peace? - The Munich agreement, signed 70 years ago, delayed the war in Europe by handing Hitler a part of Czechoslovakia. In hindsight, a year’s peace and economic respite only boosted Germany - 26th September 2008
- A long shadow - Alan Greenspan, that grandmaster of good timing, last week described the current financial crisis as “probably a once-in-a-century event” - 21st September 2008
- Their struggle - The Nazi empire turned out to be the least successful piece of colonisation ever seen. Three Hitler biographies offer explanations for the Third Reich’s doom - 13th September 2008
- How a local squall might become a global tempest - A new and colder front is crossing the macroeconomic weather map: the prospect of a global slowdown. Niall Ferguson considers the outlook - 7th August 2008
- China’s war on nature - Rapid growth is generating conflicts that may prove hard to keep off the internet – yet the medium is proving as suited to nationalism as to dissent - 14th July 2008
- Rebellion without a cause - The higher-education earthquake that reverberated across campuses 40 years ago articulated fundamental shifts in society and thinking. Niall Ferguson asks what 1968 has come to mean - 17th May 2008
- West Village to West Bank - A new readable collection by an authority on sometimes unreadable intellectuals shows how the Left Bank looks from downtown Manhattan - 26th April 2008
- When worlds collide - Are empires as dominant today as they have ever been? It’s an ambitious claim, but it’s easy to quibble with this work’s conclusions - 28th March 2008
- Time travellers - Twenty scholars take an imaginary journey back in time and recreate the ambience of key periods in history - 22nd March 2008
- Slow but sure - Has the democratic wave broken? Is the tide of political freedom now ebbing after the spectacular flow that began in 1989? - 25th January 2008
- An Ottoman warning for indebted America - Future historians will look back on the current decade as a turning point comparable with that of the Seventies. No, not the 1970s - 1st January 2008
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