Author

Books by Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson is a British historian and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is the author of more than a dozen books on economic and financial history, including The Pity of War, The Cash Nexus, Empire, Colossus, and Civilization. He also writes and presents documentary television series, several of which have accompanied his books. Ferguson is known for a willingness to engage with counterfactual history and for bringing financial and economic analysis to bear on political and military history. The Ascent of Money accompanied a major Channel 4 and PBS television documentary series of the same name.