Niall Ferguson
Niall Ferguson
William Ziegler Professor of Business Administration
| Unit | Business, Government and the International Economy |
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| Contact | (617) 495-9318 Send E-Mail |
| Interests | business history, capital markets, economics, globalization, government and business, more > |
| Overview | Biography | Publications & Course Materials | Current Research | Areas of Interest |
Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University and William Ziegler Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford University, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
Featured Work
The Ascent of Money
A Financial History of the World
Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance.
Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre, moolah, readies, the wherewithal: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it’s the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it’s the chains of labor. But in The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson shows that finance is in fact the foundation of human progress. What’s more, he reveals financial history as the essential backstory behind all history.