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Sir Niall Campbell Ferguson, HonFRSE (/ n iː l / NEEL; born 18 April 1964) [1] is a British-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.
When Niall Ferguson, one of our best intellectuals, lends aid and comfort to such arguments, I feel compelled to confront, contest, and hopefully correct it—even if I take little pleasure doing so.
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World is a 2008 book by then-Harvard professor Niall Ferguson, [1] and an adapted television documentary for Channel 4 (UK) and PBS (US), [2] which in 2009 won an International Emmy Award. It examines the long history of money, credit, and banking.
Economic historian Niall Ferguson discusses some of Perkins's statements in the 2008 book The Ascent of Money (2008). According to Perkins, the leaders of Ecuador (President Jaime Roldós Aguilera) and Panama (General Omar Torrijos) were assassinated by U.S. agents for opposing the interests of the owners of their countries' foreign debt. Both ...
The resilient stock market, buoyed by fiscal and monetary stimulus, conceals the severity of damage from the coronavirus, said Niall Ferguson, a leading scholar of monetary policy.
Ferguson highlighted two key geopolitical aspects of the war in Ukraine: The West's failed promise of Ukraine joining NATO and Ukraine giving up its nuclear weapons after the first Cold War.
The conservative historian Niall Ferguson referred to the concept, ... Amerongen faced severe peer and media criticism for endorsing the conspiracy theory. [59]
Historian Niall Ferguson and economist Moritz Schularick first coined the term in late 2006, arguing that saving by the Chinese and overspending by Americans led to an incredible period of wealth creation that contributed to the financial crisis of 2007–08. [7]