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Category Archive: Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson Quote: “My fundamental tenets are concerned with…”

My fundamental tenets are concerned with freedom of the individual; the market isn’t perfect, but it’s the best available way of allocating resources.

April 3, 2021 1964, April 18, British, Niall Ferguson, Quotes by Historians

Niall Ferguson Quote: “If being rightwing is thinking that…”

If being rightwing is thinking that Karl Marx’s doctrine was a catastrophe for humanity, then I’m rightwing.

March 3, 2021 1964, April 18, British, Niall Ferguson, Quotes by Historians

Niall Ferguson Quote: “I can’t think of anything I…”

I can’t think of anything I would rather do with my money than buy my children the best possible education.

February 8, 2021 1964, April 18, British, Niall Ferguson, Quotes by Historians

Niall Ferguson Quote: “I was never a very convincing…”

I was never a very convincing social conservative, and always avoided associating myself with that part of the broader conservative movement.

December 17, 2020 1964, April 18, British, Niall Ferguson, Quotes by Historians

Niall Ferguson Quote: “The whole point about historians is…”

The whole point about historians is that we are really communing with the dead. It’s very restful – because you read. There’s some sociopathic problem that makes me prefer it to human interaction.

November 26, 2020 1964, April 18, British, Niall Ferguson, Quotes by Historians

Niall Ferguson Quote: “It’s great to see countries like…”

It’s great to see countries like China and India lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty by essentially copying Western ways of doing things.

September 19, 2020 1964, April 18, British, Niall Ferguson, Quotes by Historians

Niall Ferguson Quote: “Only in England would ‘professor gets…”

Only in England would ‘professor gets divorced and remarried’ be a story.

September 4, 2020 1964, April 18, British, Niall Ferguson, Quotes by Historians

Niall Ferguson Quote: “The great thing about behavioural psychology…”

The great thing about behavioural psychology and economics is that they help us to see that there are actually pretty good reasons why human beings swing from greed to fear, and why we’re not really calculating machines or utility-maximisers.

July 30, 2020 1964, April 18, British, Niall Ferguson, Quotes by Historians

Niall Ferguson Quote: “As a financial historian, I was…”

As a financial historian, I was quite isolated in Oxford – British historians are supposed to write about kings – so the quality of intellectual life in my field is much higher at Harvard. The students work harder there.

May 23, 2020 1964, April 18, British, Niall Ferguson, Quotes by Historians

Niall Ferguson Quote: “Risk models are a substitute for…”

Risk models are a substitute for historical knowledge, because they tend to work with just three years’ worth of data. But three years is not a long time in financial history.

May 21, 2020 1964, April 18, British, Niall Ferguson, Quotes by Historians

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