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Niall Ferguson is a writer affiliated with Harvard University. He was born on April 18, 1964, and is identified as a person from the US. His official website is niallferguson.com.
Ferguson has authored numerous works, including *Arsenal of Democracy*, *War on Science*, *Civilization*, *The West and the Rest*, *USA*, and *The Pity of War*. Open Library lists 49 works under his name, while Crossref records five. One of his quotes states, "The empire had begun with the stealing of gold; it progressed with the cultivation of sugar."
On Last.fm, his music profile has 760 listeners and 14,078 plays, with tags including "nonsense," "propaganda," and "right wing propaganda." He has 272,412 social media followers. His subject is referenced by 619 other encyclopedia articles.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 49
Top works
- Arsenal of Democracy
- War on Science
- Civilization, The West and the Rest
- USA
- The Pity of War
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 760
- Total plays
- 14,078
Tags
Niall Campbell Douglas Ferguson (born April 18, 1964, in Glasgow) is a British historian who specialises in financial and economic history as well as the history of colonialism. He is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University and the William Ziegler Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He was educated at the private Glasgow Academy in Scotland, and at Magdalen College, Oxford. He is best known <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Niall+Ferguson
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Geant4—a simulation toolkit
· 2003 · cited 21,263x
- Astropy: A community Python package for astronomy
· 2013 · cited 13,548x
- A Second Generation Force Field for the Simulation of Proteins, Nucleic Acids, and Organic Molecules
· 1995 · cited 11,855x
- Mediation in experimental and nonexperimental studies: New procedures and recommendations.
· 2002 · cited 8,597x
- Ultra-high-throughput microbial community analysis on the Illumina HiSeq and MiSeq platforms
· 2012 · cited 8,048x
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Quotes
- “The First World War was at once piteous, in the poet's sense, and 'a pity'. It was something worse than a tragedy, which is ultimately something we are taught by the theatre to regard as unavoidable. It was nothing less than the greatest error of modern history.”
- “For much (though certainly, as we shall see, not all) of its history, the British Empire acted as an agency for imposing free markets, the rule of law, investor protection and relatively incorrupt government on roughly a quarter of the world. The Empire also did a good deal to encourage those things in countries which were outside its formal imperial domain but under its economic influence through the ‘imperialism of fair trade’.”
- “The difficulty with the achievements of the empire is that they are much more likely to be taken for granted than the sins of the empire.”
- “The British Empire was the nearest thing there has ever been to a world government. Yet its mode of operation was a triumph of minimalism.”
- “For better, for worse – fair and foul – the world we know today is in large measure the product of Britain’s age of Empire. The question is not whether British imperialism was without a blemish. It was not. The question is whether there could have been a less bloody path to modernity. Perhaps in theory there could have been. But in practice?”
- “The empire had begun with the stealing of gold; it progressed with the cultivation of sugar.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Niall Campbell Ferguson , ( 1964-04-18 ) 18 April 1964 (age 62) , Glasgow , Scotland
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom United States
- Spouses
- Sue Douglas ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1994 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2011 ) Ayaan Hirsi Ali ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 10 September 2011</span>"}]]}'>2011 )
- Education
- Magdalen College, Oxford , ( MA , DPhil ), University of Hamburg
- Thesis
- Business and Politics in the German Inflation (1989)
- Doctoral advisor
- Norman Stone
- Influences
- A. J. P. Taylor
- Discipline
- International history , Economic history
- Institutions
- University of Cambridge University of Oxford New York University Harvard University London School of Economics Hoover Institution , Stanford University
- Doctoral students
- Tyler Goodspeed
- Notable works
- Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World (2003), Civilisation: the West and the Rest (2011)
- Website
- www .niallferguson .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
NIALL FERGUSON
Niall Ferguson is one of the world’s foremost historians. He is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the managing director of Greenmantle, LLC. He is the author of sixteen books. His awards include the International Emmy for Best Documentary, the Benja, Niall Ferguson is one of the world’s foremost historians. He is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the managing director of Greenmantle, LLC. He is the author of sixteen books. His awards include the International Emmy for Best Documentary, the Benjamin Franklin Award for Public Service, and the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award.
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Described at
Niall Ferguson - Powerbase
powerbase.info →Ferguson graduated from Magdalen College, Oxford with First Class Honours in 1985.[[3]]( Subsequently, writes Robert S. Boynton, "Ferguson was accepted into the postgraduate program. He chose as his mentor the historian Norman Stone") , who was a fellow-Scot, a Glasgow Academy alumnus, a much reviled Thatcherite, and-like one of Stone's heroes, A.J.P. Taylor") , a media don."[[4]]( In April 2009 Ferguson debated the financial crisis along with economist Paul Krugman") and others at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art.[[10]]( The event proved to be the starting point for a literary spat. Krugman wrote on his New York Times blog that the event proved that "we’re living in a Dark Age of macroeconomics, in which hard-won knowledge has simply been forgotten." What’s the evidence? Niall Ferguson “explaining” that fiscal expansion will actually be contractionary, because it will drive up interest rates. At least that’s what I think he said; there were so many flourishes that it’s hard to tell. But in any case, this is really sad: John Hicks knew far more about this in 1937 than people who think they’re sophisticates know now.[[11]]( Ferguson claimed a month later in the Financial Times that a subsequent rise in bond yields "settled a rather public argument between me and the Princeton economist Paul Krugman."[[12]]( At the 2010 Hay Festival, the new Education Secretary Michael Gove invited Ferguson to "spend more time in Britain to help us design a more exciting and engaging history curriculum?."[[15]]( Gove had praised Ferguson in 2006 article because he "he dared to approach the legacy of the British Empire with a balanced mind, accepting its manifold evils but also ready to acknowledge its progressive side."[[16]]( In October 2015, Ferguson signed a letter in The Guardian along with more than 150 people drawn from the arts and politics. The letter launched Culture for Coexistence , an organisation that opposes the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.[[17]](
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Wikidata facts
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- Family name
- Ferguson
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Glasgow
- Occupation
- journalist
- Educated at
- The Glasgow Academy
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Christianity
- Award
- Knight Bachelor
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Field of work
- journalism
- Movement
- neoliberalism
- Official website
- www.niallferguson.com
- Image
- Niall Ferguson no Fronteiras do Pensamento São Paulo 2017 (37840342015) (cropped).jpg
- Residence
- Washington, D.C.
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Encyclopedic overview
Sir Niall Campbell Ferguson HonFRSE (/niːl/ NEEL; born 18 April 1964) is a British and American historian who is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. Previously, he was a professor at Harvard University, the London School of Economics, New York University, a visiting professor at the New College of the Humanities, and a senior research fellow at Jesus College, Oxford. He was a visiting lecturer at the London School of Economics for the 2023/2024 academic year and at Tsinghua University in China from 2019 to 2020.
Ferguson writes and lectures on international history, economic history, financial history, and the history of the British Empire and American imperialism. He holds positive views concerning the British Empire. In 2004, he was one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world. Ferguson has written and presented numerous television documentary series, including The Ascent of Money, which won an International Emmy Award for Best Documentary in 2009. In 2024, he was knighted by King Charles III for services to literature.
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