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- Niall Ferguson's Worst and Best Scenarios for America's Future
- Is America headed for a great depression similar to what began in 1929? Or has it already begun to put the recession in its rear view mirror and is to soon resume its roll as global policeman? For Niall Ferguson, one is the worst-case scenario, the...
- Blog posts 2009-07-01
- Niall Ferguson: Forget Gloom -- Think Doom!
- Niall Ferguson: Forget Gloom -- Think Doom!RE: Niall Ferguson: Forget Gloom -- Think Doom!Mr. Ferguson is correct in that things will get worse before they get better. In addition to manipulation of oil prices that will further strain the economy and perhaps create shortages, you'll see the Russians mounting more...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-23
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- Niall Ferguson: Forget Gloom -- Think Doom!
- Niall Ferguson, the widely respected and controversial Harvard Business School economist and historian, has just penned in the Financial Times a rather gloomy prognosis for the US economy. In short, Ferguson suggests that even as US lawmakers mull a $700 billion government-backed shoring up of the financial...
- Blog posts 2008-09-23
- Niall Ferguson: Don't Blame Deregulation for Current Woes
- Critics blaming the Bush and Clinton administrations' deregulation of the financial industry for the economic crisis have it all wrong, says Harvard economist Niall Ferguson. Dangerously wrong No, rather it was the wrong kind of regulation and bad fiscal policy by the Fed that...
- Blog posts 2009-05-18
- David Takes on Goliath and Loses: The Ferguson-Krugman Exchange
- Edward Hugh submits: "As long as excessive debt is not digested, both monetary and fiscal policies are inefficient. There is not much of an alternative. Either to let the economy collapse, in order to reduce debts, and then use fiscal policy to revive it, or inundate the insolvent economy...
- External links 2009-06-10
- Ferguson or Krugman, Which One is Right?
- Roger Nusbaum submits: You may be aware of a disagreement between Paul Krugman and Niall Ferguson not to be confused with Turd Ferguson about what the rise in treasury yields actually means.Krugman believes it is evidence of confidence about the future and normalcy in terms of market function. by Roger...
- External links 2009-06-08
- Niall Ferguson
- A professor at Harvard University, the Scottish-born Ferguson is renowned in the field of counterfactual history. His three-part series on WWII, “War of the World,” recently aired on PBS. His picks: My Five Most Important Books 1. “War and Peace” by Leo Tolstoy. The book that, more than...
- Research articles 2008-07-28
- Krugman vs. Ferguson: Hubris of Small Differences
- Marc Chandler submits: In various op-ed pages, the prolific economic historian Niall Ferguson and Nobel-prize winning economist-cum-columnist Paul Krugman are having a heated discussion. Their egos make them exaggerate what appear to be relatively minor differences, which are largely a question of emphasis. ...
- External links 2009-06-06
- Dominion over palm and pine
- Jonathan Sumption EMPIRE by Niall Ferguson Penguin/Allen Lane, L25, pp. 392, ISBN 0713996153 'Now a major Channel Four series,' warns the dust jacket of Niall Ferguson's latest attempt to tread on our intellectual corns. Not much of an advertisement, really. Television invites inaccuracy and platitude. Perhaps the format will bear...
- Research articles 2003-01-11
- The Descent of Finance | HBR Ideacast
- Are we at the end of the ascent of modern finance? Niall Ferguson, Harvard Business School Professor and author of the Harvard Business Review article, "The Descent of Finance," discusses why he believes this to be the case, and why we might be in the middle of a "lost decade."...
- Blog posts 2009-08-03
- Money Matters
- Â Money outdoes technology in advancing our well-being, and money grows based on what government does, not private institutions. Neither argument will sound right to those of us in today's framed by Moore's Law and hooked on debt, derivatives and deregulation. But the power of money and government...
- Blog posts 2008-12-29
- What History Tells Us About America's Future
- Harvard's Niall Ferguson is a well known and controversial historian who often looks into the financial past to plot parallels with contemporary times. Lately Ferguson has warned of a coming decline in the West and particularly in the US -- see his 2006 book The War of the World:...
- Blog posts 2008-02-07
- Critic's corner
- It's not the Fourth of July yet, but PBS is setting off fireworks. Based on the book by historian Niall Ferguson, who serves as omnipresent host, PBS' three-part The War of the World (10 ET/PT, times may vary) is as challenging as it is controversial. The...
- Research articles 2008-06-30
- Studyin' War Some More What there is to learn, and re-learn - the World Trade Center disaster finds America with little recent experience in war
- The issue of the London Spectator dated March 24 of this year ran a special section on the military, its place in British society, and its future prospects. The lead-off piece was by historian Niall Ferguson, author of a fine book, The Pity of War, about World War I. In...
- Research articles 2001-12-17
- Money and Power: Pondering Economic Growth and Decline. . - Books - book review
- Niall Ferguson, The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000 (New York: Basic Books, 2001), 552 pp., $18.
- Research articles 2002-06-22
- Wharton on the Meltdown: Is This the End?
- In this Knowledge@Wharton video, Wharton profs Richard Herring, Susan Wachter and Franklin Allen debate the impact of the financial crisis on U.S. and international markets. For more on the financial crisis on BNET: Robert Reed discusses Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs' dive into banking's...
- Blog posts 2008-09-23
- The Credit Crunch: 1929,1873,1836, 1492 All Over Again
- Last week in this space we noted that at least some scholars thought that the analogy between the current unpleasantness in the financial sector and the great stock market crash of 1929 an inapt one. They contend we must delve further back, to the crash of 1873 to find a...
- Blog posts 2008-11-04
- When They Were Kings
- Niall Ferguson's most recent book, "Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons For Global Power," has been praised by some as vital to understanding America's foreign-policy challenges, but by others as neoimperialist claptrap. His next book, "Colossus: The Price of American Empire," out...
- Research articles 2003-08-07
- Get Davos a Zoloft
- So far, the news out of Davos would suggest capitalism should be on a suicide watch. The World Economic Forum, has featured leaders from state-dominated economies like China and Russia thumbing their noses and pointing their fingers at American-style capitalism, with pundits and professors piling on. Here's this striking bit...
- Blog posts 2009-01-29
- Gold: The Long-Run Value
- Adrian Ash submits: Gold is not the ultimate inflation hedge. Nor is it often much use compared to stocks, bonds or real estate... AFTER FALLING for 18 years as the 20th century reached its twilight, "the twilight of gold appeared to have arrived," wrote Niall Ferguson, now a Harvard...
- External links 2009-02-12
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