LINKS:
- Niall Ferguson's website

Niall Ferguson
Money and human progress
7 November 2008, 18.00-19.00
Wills Memorial Building, Queen's Road, Bristol

This event is free of charge, but places must be booked in advance. To enquire about reserving a place, please email us at: ideas@gwebusinesswest.co.uk.



In association with the Centre for Governance & International Affairs, University of Bristol

Harvard historian and broadcaster Niall Ferguson follows his best-selling books on the First World War, the American empire and the violent twentieth century with The Ascent of Money, a new book and Channel 4 series on money and its role in the economy, politics, the arts, war and peace.

From the impact of the bond market on the American civil war to the way financial failure led to Argentina becoming a basket case to the financial revolution now propelling China from poverty to power in a single generation, Ferguson, in his usual passionate style and with great clarity, talks about the ascent of money as the cornerstone of human progress and decline.

As Britain and the world reels under the impact of the credit crunch it's an essential session for our time. Whether you are just paying the bills or want to be a master of the universe, Ferguson shows that knowing about the history of money with its bubbles and crashes, will stop you getting your fingers burnt.

Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University and William Ziegler Professor at Harvard Business School. He is a resident faculty member of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. He is also a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford University, and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

His books include: The Pity of War (London: Allen Lane/Penguin Press, 1998); The House of Rothschild, 2 vols. (Penguin Press, 1998-9); The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000 (London , Allen Lane/Penguin Press, 2001); Empire: The Rise and Fall of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power (New York: Basic Books, 2003); Colossus: The Rise and Fall
of the American Empire (London / New York : Penguin Press, 2004); The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Decline of the West (London / New York : Penguin Press, 2006) and, in 2008, The Ascent of Money: a Financial History of the World.

Click here to download Niall's slide presentation (2.35MB PDF file)

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