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Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University and William Ziegler Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford University, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
His early books include Paper and Iron: Hamburg Business and German Politics in the Era of Inflation 1897-1927 (Cambridge University Press, 1995), which was short-listed for the History Today Book of the Year award; Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals (Macmillan, 1997); The Pity of War: Explaining World War One (Penguin, 1998); and The World’s Banker: The History of the House of Rothschild (Weidenfeld Nicolson, 1998), which won the Wadsworth Prize for Business History.
More recently he has published The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000 (Penguin, 2001); Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power (Penguin, 2003); and Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire (Penguin, 2004). His latest book is The War of the World: History’s Age of Hatred (Penguin, 2006). His last three books have all formed the basis for television documentaries.
Niall Ferguson is a contributing editor of the Financial Times. www.niallferguson.org - -
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, writes Niall Ferguson
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, writes Niall Ferguson
Do not count on the Tories winning just yet
Most commentators assume that a general election would be won by the Conservatives. Yet their electoral position is markedly weaker than that of Labour 12 years ago, write Niall Ferguson and Glen O’Hara
History lesson for economists in thrall to Keynes
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, writes Niall Ferguson
What Price Liberty?
Spanning from medieval England to the modern age, this history of the conception of freedom and its slow erosion both in times of war and of peace is worth its weight in gold, writes Niall Ferguson
