Niall Ferguson Libros

Hace tiempo que se anuncia el declive de Occidente, pero ahora los síntomas de esa decadencia nos acosan: un crecimiento mínimo, una deuda asfixiante, una población envejecida, conductas antisociales. Qué le pasa a la civilización occidental? La respuesta que ofrece Niall Ferguson es que nuestras instituciones, los complejos marcos dentro de los que una sociedad puede florecer o fracasar, están degenerando. El gobierno representativo, el libre mercado, el imperio de la ley y la sociedad civil: estos solían ser los cuatro pilares de las sociedades occidentales. Estas instituciones, más que ninguna ventaja geográfica o climatológica, permitieron el dominio global de Occidente a partir de 1500. En nuestra época, sin embargo, estas instituciones se han deteriorado de modo alarmante. Nuestras democracias han roto el pacto intergeneracional al amontonar deuda sobre nuestros hijos y nietos. Nuestros mercados cada vez están más deformados por regulaciones hipercomplejas que son la enfermedad, no la cura que pretenden. El imperio de la ley se ha convertido en el imperio de los abogados. Y la sociedad civil es ahora la sociedad incivil, en la que esperamos perezosos que el estado resuelva todos nuestros problemas. La gran degeneración, es un poderoso y en ocasiones polémico alegato contra una era de negligencia y pasividad. Mientras el mundo árabe lucha por alcanzar la democracia y China avanza de la liberalización económica al imperio de la ley, europeos y estadounidenses malgastan el legado institucional de varios siglos. Detener la degeneración de la civilización occidental, advierte Ferguson, requerirá líderes audaces y una reforma radical.

Oakwood Press gloss pictorial card covered book with square bound spine. OL112 in the Oakwood library of railway history. Excellent detailed, well written history of these railways in East Scotland. 240pp of text, numerous B&W photographs, route maps and detail maps. 2000 1st edition. Approximately A5 size.

Challenging the dominant perspective, this study argues that alternative economic policies existed during Weimar Germany, contradicting the belief that inflationary measures were the only option. It explores the historical context and economic decisions of the era, offering new insights into the potential paths not taken. Through rigorous analysis, the work invites readers to reconsider the economic strategies available to Weimar policymakers and their implications for the nation's stability.

High Financier In this pathbreaking new biography, based on more than 10,000 hitherto unavailable letters and diary entries, bestselling author Ferguson returns to his roots as a financial historian to tell the story of legendary financier Siegmund Warburg. Full description

No American statesman has been as revered and as reviled as Henry Kissinger. Hailed by some as the 'indispensable man', whose advice has been sought by every president from Kennedy to Obama, Kissinger has also attracted immense hostility from critics who have cast him as an amoral Machiavellian - the ultimate cold-blooded 'realist'. Niall Ferguson has created an extraordinary panorama of Kissinger's world, and a paradigm-shifting reappraisal of the man. Only through knowledge of Kissinger's early life can we understand his debt to the philosophy of idealism. And only by tracing his rise, fall and revival as an adviser to John F. Kennedy, Nelson Rockefeller and, finally, Richard Nixon can we appreciate the magnitude of his contribution to the theory of diplomacy, grand strategy and nuclear deterrence

'A fascinating portrait . . . Beautifully paced, dramatically subtle and psychologically shrewd . . . Warburg is an emblem of money as it ought to be, and now isn't' Bryan Appleyard, New Statesman This is the extraordinary story of Siegmund Warburg: the refugee from Nazi Germany who restored the Blitz-shattered City of London as the world's preeminent international financial centre. In recounting how this brilliant, scholarly man brought wit, passion and, above all, high ethical standards to the world of finance, Niall Ferguson shows how his meticulous methods were the antithesis of the debt-fuelled, speculative banking of our times. 'Extensively researched and beautifully written' Peter Stormonth Darling, Spectator 'Ferguson's account of Warburg's life not only reveals a prophet of European unification and, later, globalization, but a banker from a more responsible (and civilised) era' Peter Mandelson, Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year 'A timely, original and engaging biography' Sathnam Sanghera, The Times 'Financially literate, extremely thorough, deploying dazzling breadth of cultural reference ...... Ferguson has produced a fine historical biography. He has also reminded us, regrettably, that Warburg has no peer in the financial world today' Simon Shaw, Mail on Sunday

The definitive biography of Henry Kissinger, based on unprecedented access to his private papers. No American statesman has been as revered or as reviled as Henry Kissinger

Shows that a nation's success largely depends on the way it manages its money. But where do money and politics meet? From 1700 to the present day, the author offers an analysis of the evolution of today's economic and political landscape.

Ferguson reexamines the war, especially Britain's role, and takes issue with some long held beliefs