Niall Ferguson, intellectuel «rock star» et dissident transatlantique

Le Britannique Niall Ferguson est un historien capable de manier les théories et les techniques quantitatives de la science économique. Enseignant heureux à Oxford, NYU et chercheur à Stanford, il est un spécialiste reconnu et un vulgarisateur forcené.

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Il avait écrit dans Vanity Fair, en octobre 2006, un article sur le déclin de l’Occident : Empire Falls.

Extrait :”They called it “the American Century,” but the past hundred years actually saw a shift away from Western dominance. Through the long lens of Edward Gibbon’s history, “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, Rome 331 and America and Europe 2006 appear to have more than a few problems in common.”

Il vient maintenant de publier : Wall Street Lays Another Egg (7 pages)

Extrait : “Not so long ago, the dollar stood for a sum of gold, and bankers knew the people they lent to. The author charts the emergence of an abstract, even absurd world-call it Planet Finance-where mathematical models ignored both history and human nature, and value had no meaning.”


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