Niall Ferguson

LAURENCE A. TISCH PROFESSOR OF HISTORY

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Ferguson's interesting personal homepage is here.

Niall Ferguson has made being an historian trendy. He is an intrepid thinker and is quite prepared to challenge the norms of historical research. One fine example is his book Empire, which argues, quite against the current fashion, that the British Empire left many a good legacy which we in the modern world have inherited.

Ferguson was the 2012 presenter for the famous Reith lectures. The Reith Lectures is a series of annual radio lectures given by leading figures of the day, commissioned by the BBC and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and the BBC World Service.

The subjects of his lectures were:

Lecture 1: The Human Hive

Lecture 2: The Darwinian Economy

Lecture 3: The Landscape of the Law

Lecture 4: Civil and Uncivil Societies

British historian Niall Ferguson, who works in the fields of financial and economic history, particularly hyperinflation and the bond markets, as well as the history of colonialism, in his office at Harvard.

His latest book (2016) is a detailed study on the leading American diplomat Henry Kissinger, whose fascinating life spanned a childhood in Nazi Germany, to immigration to the USA on the eve of World War Two, enlistment in the US army and deployment back to Germany, and a life in academia and politics.

Watch Professor Ferguson give his clever lecture on The 6 Killer Apps of Prosperity:

Download the transcripts of his lectures below:

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