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Niall Ferguson
History & Commentary
Niall Ferguson is a historian and author whose work examines international, economic and financial history, alongside British and American imperialism.
Biography
Niall Ferguson, born in 1964, is a British and American historian. He is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a senior fellow at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. He previously held professorships at Harvard University, the London School of Economics and New York University, and was a senior research fellow at Jesus College, Oxford.
Ferguson writes and lectures on international history, economic and financial history, the British Empire and American imperialism. His work includes books, newspaper columns and television documentaries. He wrote and presented The Ascent of Money documentary series, which won an International Emmy Award for Best Documentary in 2009. He became a joint founder of the University of Austin in 2021 and was knighted for services to literature in 2024.
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Books by Niall Ferguson
The ascent of money
The Ascent of Money traces the evolution of finance from ancient Mesopotamia to modern financial upheavals, explaining the origins of money, banks, bonds and other financial institutions. Ferguson argues that finance underpins human progress and uses financial history to reinterpret events including the Renaissance, the rise of the Dutch republic and the French Revolution.