Niall Ferguson

Oxford University Professor of

Niall Ferguson is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at . He is also a Senior Fellow at the , , and a Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford.

Niall has written and presented five major television series, including , which won the 2009 International Emmy award for Best Documentary. His most recent books are : The West and the Rest (2012) also a major TV documentary series, and High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg (2010).

His first book, Paper and Iron: Hamburg Business and German Politics in the Era of Inflation 1897-1927, was short-listed for the History Today Book of the Year award. In 1998 he published to international critical acclaim The Pity of War: Explaining World War One, and The World's Banker: The History of the House of Rothschild. The latter won the Wadsworth Prize for Business History and was also short-listed for the Jewish Quarterly / Wingate Literary Award and the American National Jewish Book Award. In 2001 he published The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000, following a year as Houblon-Norman Fellow at the .

Other books he has written include: Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals (1997), : The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power (2003), Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire (2004) and The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West (2006).

A weekly columnist for and a contributing editor for Bloomberg TV, Niall divides his time between the and the United Kingdom. He is currently working on a life of . The film based on his interviews with Kissinger won the 2011 New York Film Festival prize for Best Documentary.The London Sunday Times called Civilization "a masterpiece ... a pulsing energy suffuses his account and fascinating facts burst like fireworks on every page". In 2004 Time magazine named him as one of the 100 most

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Topics

· The Ascent and Descent of Money: What Went Wrong with Western Finance? · Globalization: Past, Present and Possible Futures · The Great Depression 2.0: The Credit Crunch in Historical Perspective · Are Capitalism and Democracy Bound to Win? · Political Risk and the Global Business Environment · Business : How Big Companies Rise and Fall

Publications

· The Square and the Tower: Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power, 2018 · The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die, 2014 · Civilization: The West and the Rest, 2012 · The Ascent of Money, 2012 · The Rise and Fall of The American Empire, 2009

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