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Niall Ferguson

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Niall Ferguson is a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and Harvard University's Center for European Studies.

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  1. More Keynesian than Keynes
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    More Keynesian than Keynes

    Jun 1, 2015 Niall Ferguson believes that it is Robert Skidelsky who is propagandizing in their debate over UK austerity.

  2. The Economic Consequences of Mr. Osborne
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    The Economic Consequences of Mr. Osborne

    May 19, 2015 Niall Ferguson rebuts the Keynesian argument that fiscal consolidation has damaged the UK economy.

  3. Rehab World
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    Rehab World

    Jan 8, 2014 Niall Ferguson poses seven questions for a global economy that should recover slowly in 2014.

  4. Civilizing the Marketplace of Ideas
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    Civilizing the Marketplace of Ideas

    Oct 14, 2013 Niall Ferguson on the perils of Paul Krugman

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    In Praise of First-Past-the-Post

    Andrés Velasco explains why Britain’s electoral system is better than all the plausible alternatives.
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    Peacebuilding in the Middle East Requires Women

    Anne-Marie Slaughter & Xanthe Scharff argue that negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians must no longer be the province of men.
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    Macron and Europe’s Centrists Are Out of Good Options

    Yanis Varoufakis shows that an intractable economic conundrum lies behind the current impasse in French politics.
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    Immigration Does Not Start at the US Border

    Carlos Alvarado-Quesada laments the failure of Republicans and Democrats alike to address the root causes of migration.
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    Will AI Kill Off Money?

    Jean-Pierre Landau considers some of the underappreciated implications of an economy run entirely by machines.
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    A Philosopher for Our Times

    Enrique Krauze shows that, given rising illiberalism, the seventeenth-century thinker Baruch Spinoza is as relevant as ever.
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    A New Worldview for Troubled Times

    Dennis J. Snower proposes four principles to guide policymaking and global negotiations in the age of climate change.
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    Navigating Today’s Frothy Financial Markets

    Dambisa Moyo offers a basic framework for assessing the risk of new bubbles and their potential spillover effects.
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    An Arab Spring for Bangladesh?

    M. Niaz Asadullah argues that young protestors could help the country chart a democratic course and achieve sustainable growth.

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