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"Niall Campbell Douglas Ferguson" is a Scottish historian. He is the Laurence Tisch/Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University. He is also a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford/Jesus College, University of Oxford, a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University and visiting professor at the New College of the Humanities. His specialties are international history, economic history, particularly hyperinflation and the bond markets, and British and American imperialism. He is known for his provocative, contrarian views.
Ferguson's books include Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World, The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World and Civilization: The West and the Rest, all of which he has presented as Channel 4 television series.
In 2004, he was named as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time (magazine)/Time magazine.
Since 2011, he has been a contributing editor for Bloomberg Television and a columnist for Newsweek.
Ferguson was an advisor to John McCain/John McCain's U.S. presidential campaign in 2008, and announced his support for Mitt Romney in 2012 and has been a vocal critic of Barack Obama.
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