Niall Ferguson

Sir Niall Campbell Ferguson is a British and American historian who is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. Previously, he was a professor at Harvard University, the London School of Economics, New York University, a visiting professor at the New College of the Humanities, and a senior research fellow at Jesus College, Oxford. He was a visiting lecturer at the London School of Economics for the 2023/2024 academic year and at Tsinghua University in China from 2019 to 2020.

Across 1 conversation, Niall Ferguson ranges across counterfactual history, academic freedom, free speech. The University of Austin aims to counteract self-censorship in academia by promoting open inquiry and free speech. Niall Ferguson highlights the historical role of money as a trust-based system, not reliant on intrinsic value.

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