Throughout history our societies have worked through networks - of information, friendship, professions, families - Niall Ferguson's new bestseller is a history of this remarkable aspect of human existence, from the networks that first allowed us to explore the oceans to today's hyper-linked world.
Niall Ferguson is one of Britain's most renowned historians. He is
the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University, a
Senior Research Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford
University, and a Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University in
Beijing.
He is the author of Paper and Iron, The House of Rothschild, The
Pity of War, The Cash Nexus, Empire, Colossus, The War of the
World, The Ascent of Money, High Financier, Civilization and The
Great Degeneration. His Kissinger, a feature-length film based on
his interviews with Henry Kissinger, won the 2011 New York Film
Festival prize for best documentary.
His many other prizes and awards include the Benjamin Franklin
Prize for Public Service (2010), the Hayek Prize for Lifetime
Achievement (2012) and the Ludwig Erhard Prize for Economic
Journalism (2013).
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