Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson is a British-American historian, author, and commentator who is one of the world's most prominent and provocative public intellectuals. He is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and has written extensively on economic and political history. The Ascent of Money is his history of finance — tracing the evolution of money, banking, credit, and financial markets from ancient Mesopotamia to the modern global economy. The book was adapted into an acclaimed television series. Ferguson's other books include Empire, Civilization, and The Square and the Tower. His audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers sweeping, provocative history from one of the world's most acclaimed historians — books that change how you understand money, power, and civilisation.