
3.10.2 Remarks on Keynes' sexual orientation. 3.5.1 Critical views of Ferguson and empire. 2.6.9 Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe. 2.6.3 Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire. 2.6.2 Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World. 2.5 Career as a commentator, documentarian and public intellectual. In 2004, he was named as one of TIME magazine's 100 most influential people in the world. įerguson has written and presented numerous television documentary series, including The Ascent of Money, which won an International Emmy award for Best Documentary in 2009. He began writing a twice-a-month column for Bloomberg Opinion in June 2020. įerguson has been a contributing editor for Bloomberg Television and a columnist for Newsweek. He once ironically called himself "a fully paid-up member of the neo-imperialist gang" following the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
He is known for his positive views concerning the British Empire.
Previously, he was a professor at Harvard, the London School of Economics and New York University, a visiting professor at New College of the Humanities and a senior research fellow at Jesus College, Oxford.įerguson writes and lectures on international history, economic and financial history and British and American imperialism. Niall Campbell Ferguson ( / ˈ n iː l/ born 18 April 1964) is a Scottish historian who currently serves as the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and as a Senior Faculty Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. Recorded June 2012 from the BBC Radio 4 programme the Reith Lectures