Niall Ferguson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3680734 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Niall Ferguson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Niall |
| FAMILY NAME | Ferguson |
| SIGNATURE | FERGUSON N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jesus University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 290 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Applying History in Real Time: A Tale of Two Crises
Policymakers generally have at least some historical assumptions, even if they have not been trained as historians. Often, these assumptions play a critical part in decision-making, especially in times of crisis. This article compares the reactions of George W. Bush’s administration to two epoch-making events: the 9/11 terrorist attacks of 2001 and the “9/15” bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in 2008. I argue that historical analogies played a key ro…
The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook
A reevaluation of history's turning points as collisions between old power hierarchies and new social networks explains how networks have always existed and have been responsible for key innovations and revolutionary ideas
Henry Kissinger, Theodore Roosevelt et l'ordre mondial selon Trump
Cet article a été publié dans The American Interest (mars-avril 2017), revue que dirigent Charles Davidson et Francis Fukuyama. Ils ont autorisé, et je m'en réjouis, sa traduction en français et sa publication dans Commentaire. Quatre mois après l'investiture de Donald Trump comme 45 e Président des États-Unis, nous n'avons aucune certitude sur la direction que prendra sa politique étrangère ; on a en revanche beaucoup spéculé - généralement de m…
La dégénérescence de l'Europe
Siegmund Warburg, the City of London and the financial roots of European integration
The process of European economic integration slackened in the 1960s. National markets for goods, most services and labour were not being integrated because they were not really being liberalised. The exception to this rule was financial services, one of which – the sale of long-term corporate and public sector bonds to relatively wealthy investors – became integrated in a quite novel way in the course of the 1960s. The rise of the so-called ‘Euro…
"Comment on Fisman and Werker's "Local Company Politics: A Proposal
This paper is a comment on Local Company Politics: A Proposal by Raymond J. Fisman and Eric Werker which can be found at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2206524
The Empire Effect: The Determinants of Country Risk in the First Age of Globalization, 1880–1913
This article reassesses the importance of colonial status to investors before 1914 by means of multivariable regression analysis of the data available to contemporaries. We show that British colonies were able to borrow in London at significantly lower rates of interest than noncolonies precisely because of their colonial status, which mattered more than either gold standard adherence or the sustainability of fiscal policies. The “empire effect” …
The Next War of the World
IN 1898, H. G. Wells wrote The War ofthe Worlds, a novel that imagined the destruction of a great city and the extermination of its inhabitants by ruthless invaders. The invaders in Wells' story were, of course, Martians. But no aliens were needed to make such devastation a reality. In the decades that followed the booWs publication, human beings repeatedly played the part of the inhuman marauders, devastating city after city in what may justly b…
The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West
From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower Astonishing in its scope and erudition, this is the magnum opus that Niall Ferguson's numerous acclaimed works have been leading up to. In it, he grapples with perhaps the most challenging questions of modern history: Why was the twentieth century history's bloodiest by far? Why did unprecedented material progress go hand in hand with total war and genocide? His quest…
Is Everything Empire? Is Empire Everything
Empire is a growth business these days. Amazon lists 10,513 books with empire in the title on its website; Barnes and Noble lists 10,210.1 Whatever the exact number of books that deal with empires as specifically political entities, empire clearly qual ifies as a hot ticket item for scholars, journalists, pundits, policymakers, advertis ers, and many others. When a word comes to dominate discourse, it has become a cultural phenomenon. But is empi…
Political risk and the international bond market between the 1848 revolution and the outbreak of the First World War1
This article uses price data and editorial commentaries from the contemporary financial press to measure the impact of political events on investors' expectations from the middle of the nineteenth century until the First World War. The main question addressed is why political events appeared to affect the world's biggest financial market, the London bond market, much less between 1881 and 1914 than they had between 1843 and 1880. In particular, I…
Colossus
The unconscious colossus: Limits of (& alternatives to) American empire
First and foremost, a very great power that has left its mark on the international relations of an era . . . a polity that rules over wide territories and many peoples, since the management of space and multiethnicity is one of the great perennial dilemmas of empire . . . . An empire is by definition . . . not a polity ruled with the explicit consent of its peoples . . . . [But] by a process of assimilation of peoples and democratization of insti…
Sinking Globalization
Prisoner Taking and Prisoner Killing in the Age of Total War: Towards a Political Economy of Military Defeat
Compared with the First World War, which ended quite quickly once the position of Germany became strategically hopeless, the Second World War proved exceedingly difficult to end even after the overwhelming economic advantage of the Allied powers had turned the strategic tide decisively against the Axis. Both German and Japanese forces continued to fight tenaciously long after any realistic chance of victory had disappeared. Part of the explanatio…
A World without Power
Try as he might, the biggest challenge President George W. Bush currently faces is to persuade American voters that his policy in Iraq has been a success. Yes, Saddam Hussein has been toppled from power, but the evidence that he mounted a serious and imminent threat to the United States or indeed American allies is not widely seen as compelling. A new government has been installed in Baghdad, but armed militias continue to operate in centers of i…
Illusions of Empire: Defining the New American Order
Colossus: The Price ofAmericas Empire. BY NIALL FERGUSON. New York: Penguin Press, 2004, 368 pp. $25.95. Fear's Empire: War, Terrorism, and Democracy. BY BENJAMIN R. BARBER. New York: Norton, 2003, 192 pp. $23.95. Incoherent Empire. BY MICHAEL MANN. New York: Verso, 2003, 284 pp. $25.00. After the Empire: The Breakdown of the American Order. BY EMMANUEL TODD. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003, 192 pp. $29.95
Wilhelminism and Its Legacies: German Modernities, Imperialism, and the Meanings of Reform, 1890-1930
Globalization without Gunboats
34 Historically Speaking · April 2003 Globalization without Gunboats? Niall Ferguson In November 2002 British foreign secretary Jack Straw made some remarks to the New Statesman magazinewhichseemappositehere: I'm not a Uberai imperialist. There's a lot wrong widi liberalism, widi a capital L, although I am a liberal with a small L. And mere's a lotwrong with imperialism. A lot of the problems we are having to deal widi now are a consequence of ou…
Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and Its Lessons for Global Power
Power
Hegemony or Empire
The cash nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000
"The cash nexus is the crucial point where money and power meet. But does money make the political world go round? Does the success of democracy depend on economic growth? Does victory always go to the richest of the great powers? Or are financial markets the true 'masters' of the modern world?". "With the analytical boldness and the grasp of dazzling detail for which he is now famous, Ferguson offers a fascinating account of the evolution of tod…
Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals
Weimar on the Volga”: Causes and Consequences of Inflation in 1990s Russia Compared with 1920s Germany
This article offers a comparative analysis of the inflationary exeriences of Weimar Germany and post-Soviet Russia, applying theories about money and government budget constraints in the manner of Thomas Sargent and François Velde. The comparison looks beyond economic policy itself to the political and social consequences of the two inflationary crises. The parallel is fairly close: close enough to suggest that Russia, despite its recent quiescen…
Colossus
The Empire Effect: The Determinants of Country Risk in the First Age of Globalization, 1880–1913
This article reassesses the importance of colonial status to investors before 1914 by means of multivariable regression analysis of the data available to contemporaries. We show that British colonies were able to borrow in London at significantly lower rates of interest than noncolonies precisely because of their colonial status, which mattered more than either gold standard adherence or the sustainability of fiscal policies. The “empire effect” …
The Pity of War
The cash nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000
"The cash nexus is the crucial point where money and power meet. But does money make the political world go round? Does the success of democracy depend on economic growth? Does victory always go to the richest of the great powers? Or are financial markets the true 'masters' of the modern world?". "With the analytical boldness and the grasp of dazzling detail for which he is now famous, Ferguson offers a fascinating account of the evolution of tod…
Virtual history: Alternatives and Counterfactuals
What if Britain had stayed out of the First World War? What if Germany had won the Second? Historians have traditionally refused to ask questions of the past, preferring to assume that whatever happened was inevitable. But Virtual History challenges this complacency as leading historians apply "counterfactual" arguments to decisive moments in modern history.--Publisher description.
The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West
From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower Astonishing in its scope and erudition, this is the magnum opus that Niall Ferguson's numerous acclaimed works have been leading up to. In it, he grapples with perhaps the most challenging questions of modern history: Why was the twentieth century history's bloodiest by far? Why did unprecedented material progress go hand in hand with total war and genocide? His quest…
A World without Power
Try as he might, the biggest challenge President George W. Bush currently faces is to persuade American voters that his policy in Iraq has been a success. Yes, Saddam Hussein has been toppled from power, but the evidence that he mounted a serious and imminent threat to the United States or indeed American allies is not widely seen as compelling. A new government has been installed in Baghdad, but armed militias continue to operate in centers of i…
Is Everything Empire? Is Empire Everything
Empire is a growth business these days. Amazon lists 10,513 books with empire in the title on its website; Barnes and Noble lists 10,210.1 Whatever the exact number of books that deal with empires as specifically political entities, empire clearly qual ifies as a hot ticket item for scholars, journalists, pundits, policymakers, advertis ers, and many others. When a word comes to dominate discourse, it has become a cultural phenomenon. But is empi…
Political risk and the international bond market between the 1848 revolution and the outbreak of the First World War1
This article uses price data and editorial commentaries from the contemporary financial press to measure the impact of political events on investors' expectations from the middle of the nineteenth century until the First World War. The main question addressed is why political events appeared to affect the world's biggest financial market, the London bond market, much less between 1881 and 1914 than they had between 1843 and 1880. In particular, I…
Hegemony or Empire
Public Finance and National Security: The Domestic Origins of the First World War Revisited
Power
The House of Rothschild: The World's Banker, 1849-1999
Prisoner Taking and Prisoner Killing in the Age of Total War: Towards a Political Economy of Military Defeat
Compared with the First World War, which ended quite quickly once the position of Germany became strategically hopeless, the Second World War proved exceedingly difficult to end even after the overwhelming economic advantage of the Allied powers had turned the strategic tide decisively against the Axis. Both German and Japanese forces continued to fight tenaciously long after any realistic chance of victory had disappeared. Part of the explanatio…
Sinking Globalization
The unconscious colossus: Limits of (& alternatives to) American empire
First and foremost, a very great power that has left its mark on the international relations of an era . . . a polity that rules over wide territories and many peoples, since the management of space and multiethnicity is one of the great perennial dilemmas of empire . . . . An empire is by definition . . . not a polity ruled with the explicit consent of its peoples . . . . [But] by a process of assimilation of peoples and democratization of insti…
Germany and the origins of the First World War: New perspectives
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Illusions of Empire: Defining the New American Order
Colossus: The Price ofAmericas Empire. BY NIALL FERGUSON. New York: Penguin Press, 2004, 368 pp. $25.95. Fear's Empire: War, Terrorism, and Democracy. BY BENJAMIN R. BARBER. New York: Norton, 2003, 192 pp. $23.95. Incoherent Empire. BY MICHAEL MANN. New York: Verso, 2003, 284 pp. $25.00. After the Empire: The Breakdown of the American Order. BY EMMANUEL TODD. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003, 192 pp. $29.95
The Degeneration of EMU
From conception through gestation and birth, and now in its early infancy, the euro has consistently proved the skeptics wrong. Some Cassandras thought that Brussels-bashing nationalists would reject the single currency in referendums. Others doubted that Italy and other fiscally troubled applicants would fulfill the Maastricht Treaty's strict limits on budget deficits and national debt. Still others predicted that the fierce 1998 dispute over th…
Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals
Constraints and Room for Manoeuvre in the German Inflation of the Early 1920s
The relentless increase of our floating debt depresses the purchasing power of our money, restricts our credit and pushes prices to fraudulent heights. The volume of paper money is no sign of prosperity, (Quite right!) but a measure of increasing impoverishment. (Renewed agreement.) And the more the value of money collapses, the more violent become the struggles over wages and salaries, which despite everything are rarely able to keep pace with t…
Siegmund Warburg, the City of London and the financial roots of European integration
The process of European economic integration slackened in the 1960s. National markets for goods, most services and labour were not being integrated because they were not really being liberalised. The exception to this rule was financial services, one of which – the sale of long-term corporate and public sector bonds to relatively wealthy investors – became integrated in a quite novel way in the course of the 1960s. The rise of the so-called ‘Euro…
The Next War of the World
IN 1898, H. G. Wells wrote The War ofthe Worlds, a novel that imagined the destruction of a great city and the extermination of its inhabitants by ruthless invaders. The invaders in Wells' story were, of course, Martians. But no aliens were needed to make such devastation a reality. In the decades that followed the booWs publication, human beings repeatedly played the part of the inhuman marauders, devastating city after city in what may justly b…
Keynes and the German Inflation
Journal Article Keynes and the German Inflation Get access NIALL FERGUSON NIALL FERGUSON Jesus CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CX, Issue 436, April 1995, Pages 368–391, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CX.436.368 Published: 01 April 1995
Food and the First World War
Journal Article Food and the First World War Get access The First World War: An Agrarian Interpretation. By Avner Offer. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, pp. xix + 449. ISBN 0-19-821946-6. £35.00. NIALL FERGUSON NIALL FERGUSON Peterhouse, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Twentieth Century British History, Volume 2, Issue 2, 1991, Pages 188–195, https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/2.2.188 Published: 01 Janu…
Business and Politics in the German Inflation: Hamburg, 1914-24
Journal Article Business and Politics in the German Inflation: Hamburg, 1914-24 Get access Niall C. Ferguson Niall C. Ferguson Magdalen College, Michaelmas 2989 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 9, Issue 1, January 1991, Pages 62–63, https://doi.org/10.1093/gh/9.1.62a Published: 01 January 1991
The German Communists and the rise of Nazism
Journal Article The German Communists and the rise of Nazism Get access The German Communists and the rise of Nazism. By Conan Fischer. London: Macmillan. 1991. 285pp. Index. £40.00. ISBN 0 333 48774 5. Niall Ferguson Niall Ferguson 1Peterhouse, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 68, Issue 1, January 1992, Pages 167–168, https://doi.org/10.2307/2620511 Published: 01 Jan…
Germany and the origins of the First World War: New perspectives
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Bankers: Beyond Conspiracy Theory
When the British government seeks a scapegoat for its own economic incompetence, it turns instinctively on a banker: it was the President of the German Bundesbank, so we were told in the summer of 1992, who was to blame for the fiasco of Britain's departure from the Exchange Rate Mechanism.Likewise, when the opposition seeks accomplices for the government's economic incompetence, it too turns instinctively on bankers: it is 'the City', Labour spo…
Public Finance and National Security: The Domestic Origins of the First World War Revisited
Keynes and the German Inflation
Journal Article Keynes and the German Inflation Get access NIALL FERGUSON NIALL FERGUSON Jesus CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CX, Issue 436, April 1995, Pages 368–391, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CX.436.368 Published: 01 April 1995
The Origins and Course of the German Economic Crisis November 1923 to May 1932
Journal Article The Origins and Course of the German Economic Crisis November 1923 to May 1932 Get access Niall Ferguson Niall Ferguson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 14, Issue 2, April 1996, Pages 264–267, https://doi.org/10.1093/gh/14.2.264 Published: 01 April 1996
Constraints and Room for Manoeuvre in the German Inflation of the Early 1920s
The relentless increase of our floating debt depresses the purchasing power of our money, restricts our credit and pushes prices to fraudulent heights. The volume of paper money is no sign of prosperity, (Quite right!) but a measure of increasing impoverishment. (Renewed agreement.) And the more the value of money collapses, the more violent become the struggles over wages and salaries, which despite everything are rarely able to keep pace with t…
Paper and Iron: Hamburg Business and German Politics in the Era of Inflation, 1897-1927
List of figures Preface List of abbreviations Introduction 1. Golden years 2. The sinews of war 3. The political economy of revolution 4. Versailles and Hamburg 5. Relative stabilisation 6. The failure of 'fulfilment' 7. Dissolution and liquidation 8. The legacy of the inflation Epilogue: Hitler's inflation Appendix Bibliography Index
Paper and Iron: Hamburg Business and German Politics in the Era of Inflation 1897-1927
The Pity of War
Virtual history: Alternatives and Counterfactuals
What if Britain had stayed out of the First World War? What if Germany had won the Second? Historians have traditionally refused to ask questions of the past, preferring to assume that whatever happened was inevitable. But Virtual History challenges this complacency as leading historians apply "counterfactual" arguments to decisive moments in modern history.--Publisher description.
The Pity of War: Explaining World War I
Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals
Weimar on the Volga”: Causes and Consequences of Inflation in 1990s Russia Compared with 1920s Germany
This article offers a comparative analysis of the inflationary exeriences of Weimar Germany and post-Soviet Russia, applying theories about money and government budget constraints in the manner of Thomas Sargent and François Velde. The comparison looks beyond economic policy itself to the political and social consequences of the two inflationary crises. The parallel is fairly close: close enough to suggest that Russia, despite its recent quiescen…
The House of Rothschild: The World's Banker, 1849-1999
Weimar on the Volga: Causes and Consequences of Inflation in 1990s Russia Compared with 1920s Germany
This article offers a comparative analysis of the inflationary exeriences of Weimar Germany and post-Soviet Russia, applying theories about money and government budget constraints in the manner of Thomas Sargent and François Velde. The comparison looks beyond economic policy itself to the political and social consequences of the two inflationary crises. The parallel is fairly close: close enough to suggest that Russia, despite its recent quiescen…
The Degeneration of EMU
From conception through gestation and birth, and now in its early infancy, the euro has consistently proved the skeptics wrong. Some Cassandras thought that Brussels-bashing nationalists would reject the single currency in referendums. Others doubted that Italy and other fiscally troubled applicants would fulfill the Maastricht Treaty's strict limits on budget deficits and national debt. Still others predicted that the fierce 1998 dispute over th…
The cash nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000
"The cash nexus is the crucial point where money and power meet. But does money make the political world go round? Does the success of democracy depend on economic growth? Does victory always go to the richest of the great powers? Or are financial markets the true 'masters' of the modern world?". "With the analytical boldness and the grasp of dazzling detail for which he is now famous, Ferguson offers a fascinating account of the evolution of tod…
Wilhelminism and Its Legacies: German Modernities, Imperialism, and the Meanings of Reform, 1890-1930
Globalization without Gunboats
34 Historically Speaking · April 2003 Globalization without Gunboats? Niall Ferguson In November 2002 British foreign secretary Jack Straw made some remarks to the New Statesman magazinewhichseemappositehere: I'm not a Uberai imperialist. There's a lot wrong widi liberalism, widi a capital L, although I am a liberal with a small L. And mere's a lotwrong with imperialism. A lot of the problems we are having to deal widi now are a consequence of ou…
Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and Its Lessons for Global Power
Power
Hegemony or Empire
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