Bio
Niall Ferguson is an author and a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford, and the Center for European Studies, Harvard.
Featured Work
DEC 8, 2008 • Podcast
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
Does the symbiotic relationship between China and America--"Chimerica" as Niall Ferguson calls it--give reason to hope that America's present economic situation will turn out ...
SEP 26, 2006 • Podcast
The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West
The twentieth century was by far the bloodiest in all of human history. How can we explain the astonishing scale and intensity of its violence ...
APR 28, 2004 • Transcript
Colossus: The Price of America's Empire
Ferguson argues that the United States would be better off embracing, rather than denying, its imperial destiny.
SEP 16, 2003 • Transcript
Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and Lessons for Global Power
Niall Ferguson examines the rise and demise of the British world order and its lessons for the United States.