Quotes by : Niall Ferguson

It's all very well for us to sit here in the west with our high incomes and cushy lives, and say it's....

The ascent of money has been essential to the ascent of man.

The dead outnumber the living fourteen to one, and we ignore the accumulated experience of such a huge....

The great thing about behavioural psychology and economics is that they help us to see that there are....

If the financial system has a defect, it is that it reflects and magnifies what we human beings are like.....

The bacteriologist, often risking his life to find cures for lethal afflictions, was another kind of....

It's all very well for us to sit here in the West with our high incomes and cushy lives, and say it's....

The real social contract, (Edmund Burke) argued, was not Rousseau's social contract between the noble....

There can be no understanding without that sympathy which puts us, through the imagination, and (another's)....

Historians are not scientists. They cannot (and should not even trying to) establish universal laws of....