Author:Ferguson, Niall

In The Pity of War, Niall Ferguson makes a simple and provocative argument: that the human atrocity known as the Great War was entirely England's fault. Britain, according to Ferguson, entered into war based on naive assumptions of German aims--and England's entry into the war transformed a Continental conflict into a world war, which they then badly mishandled, necessitating American involvement. The war was not inevitable, Ferguson argues, but rather the result of the mistaken decisions of individuals who would later claim to have been in the grip of huge impersonal forces.That the wa...
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Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die

By: Ferguson, Niall

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Publisher: PENGUIN PR:

Seller ID: 456876

ISBN: 1594205450

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From renowned historian Niall Ferguson, a searching and provocative examination of the widespread institutional rot that threatens our collective future
What causes rich countries to lose their way? Symptoms of decline are all around us today: slowing growth, crushing debts, increasing inequality, aging populations, antisocial behavior. But what exactly has gone wrong? The answer, Niall Ferguson argues in The Great Degeneration, is that our institutions the intricate frameworks within which a society can flourish or fail are degenerating.
Representative government,...
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War of the World: Twentieth Century Conflict and the Descent of the West

By: General/Ferguson, Niall

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Publisher: Jun-12

Seller ID: 198063

ISBN: 143112392

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West

By: Niall Ferguson

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Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The: Sep-06

Seller ID: 179190

ISBN: 1594201005

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Niall Fergusson's most important book to date-a revolutionary reinterpretation of the modern era that resolves its central paradox: why unprecedented progress coincided with unprecedented violence and why the seeming triumph of the West bore the seeds of its undoing. From the conflicts that presaged the First World War to the aftershocks of the cold war, the twentieth century was by far the bloodiest in all of human history. How can we explain the astonishing scale and intensity of its violence when, thanks to the advances of science and economics, most people were better off than ever before-...
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Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World

By: Niall Ferguson

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Publisher: Penguin Group: Dec-04

Seller ID: 478309

ISBN: 141007540

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The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World

By: Niall Ferguson

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Publisher: Penguin Press: Nov-08

Seller ID: 486604

ISBN: 1594201927

Binding: Hardcover

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Watch the PBS program based on The Ascent of Money.

Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance.
Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre, moolah, readies, the wherewithal: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it s the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it s the chains of labor. But in The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson shows that finance is in fact the foundation of...
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High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg

By: Warburg/Ferguson, Niall

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Publisher: PENGUIN PR: Mar-11

Seller ID: 129647

ISBN: 159420246X

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Bestselling author Niall Ferguson reveals for the first time the true extent of Siegmund Warburg's influence-and the lessons we can learn in a time of crisis from the last of the high financiers.
"Success from the financial and from the prestige point of view . . . is not enough; what matters even more is . . . adherence to high moral and aesthetic standards."
-Siegmund Warburg, 1959
In this pathbreaking new biography, based on more than ten thousand hitherto unavailable letters and diary entries, bestselling author Niall Ferguson returns to his roots as a financial historian to...
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Author:Ferguson, Niall