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Recall in all our discussions about the issues China has with "detaching" itself from the United States of Reckless Spending is the lack of a mature bond market and a free floating currency. It's a matter of when, not if, at this point for these things to happen. Today's Financial Times reports China is taking the first small step for man...before the eventual giant leap for mankind. The amounts are tiny but the precedent has been borne; file this moment away for historical refere

Ferguson and Krugman sat side by side – ideological poles of the debate at centre stage. Their contrasting demeanours made for great theatre, as Ferguson the eternal Head Boy ...Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University and William Ziegler Professor at Harvard Business School.Niall Ferguson is a British historian who specialises in financial and economic history as well as the history of empire.Baruch has to join the paean of praise for Paul Krugman’s NYT piece, How Did Economists Get it So Wrong . He’s going to object to bits of it in a second, but first let’s puff it up. It’s fantastic, a great summing up of the state of the art of the dismal science that is macro-economics, includes a proper skewering of some hapless midwesterners, and a set of prescription for the future that Baruch can only applaud; writing of where macro-economists need to go nowNiall Ferguson is a professor of history at Harvard University and a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School. His most recent book is "The Ascent of Money ...

SNAPHANEN - den dansk/svenska globala bloggen - skriver idag om den årsgamla dokumentären The World Without US : Sevärd dokumentär från 2008 om USA:s komplicerade dilemma: isolering eller inblandning. De kommer att få skulden oavsett vad man väljer. Men vad skulle konsekvenserna innebära av amerikansk isolationism visavi Europa, Mellanöstern och Fjärran Östern? Berättaren själv flydde från sovjetblocket till USA. Notera vad professor Niall Ferguson i Oxford säger A raíz de cumplirse setenta años de la invasión de Polonia por tropas alemanas, fecha tradicionalmente considerada como inicio de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, en estos días se ha escrito abundantemente sobre dicho período como lo hacen Jorge , Marcos e Iván en estos interesantes posts. El historiador británico Mark Mazower, graduado en Oxford y John Hopkins University , que enseña -entre otras- en Columbia University , tiene una visión poco convencional de la SGM que hHungarian-born George Pal would produce a raft of his 3-D "Puppetoons" before becoming one of the groundbreaking fantasy filmmakers in Hollywood. Still, because he remained such a close friend of Walter Lanz, Woody Woodpecker is mentioned or makes an appearance in all of his films. That's something to look for when Pal is saluted tonight on Turner Classic Movies with a triple feature. First comes his 1953 version of "The War of the Worlds" , followed by another H.G. Wells adaptatiProfessor Niall Ferguson examines the origins of the pillars of the world’s financial system, and how behind every great historical phenomenon – empires and republics, wars and revolutions – there lies a financial secret. From Shylock’s pound of flesh to the loan sharks of Glasgow, from the ‘promises to pay’ on Babylonian clay tablets to the Medici banking system, Watch now...

Når dansker kommer til Norge sker der noget, som man sier på dansk. Vi får en anskuelsesundervisning. Vi forstår nok ordene, men vi forstår ikke meningen. Når Jens-Martin Eriksen og Fredrik Stjernfelt snakker om kulturalismen til høyre og venstre, så nikkes det velvillig: En tredje vei! En løsning på konflikten, som kanskje kan spare oss for kulturkampen. Vi vil jo ikke ha det som i Danmark, ei heller Sverige. Nordmennene forstår ikke hva danskene sier. Det er den manglende debatt som beWarren "Bones" Bonesteel is an accomplished author and researcher whose opinions I highly respect and trust. He kindly forwarded the following material to me as a resource in understanding current and future social, political and economic events in America. The material is immaculately researched and referenced, as all of his work is. We're running out of time, folks. Events will begin happening shortly that none of us would have imagined a few short years ago. In the interest of expediency, t

I was pleased to see that Pankaj Mishra has addressed head-on fear mongers like Niall Ferguson and Christopher Caldwell who argue that the increase in Muslim immigration to Europe risks "Islamicization" and the decline of liberal Enlightenment values. In his recent book review, " A culture of fear ", Mishra points out not only the statistical inaccuracies but also the political and philosophical flaws of such an approach. In Mishra's words: Multi-ethnic Europe is an immutable fact, and ne"There must be a reason" : Respectful Insolence Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Texting? « Mad Kane’s Political Madness Obviously darwin.jpg – MySpace tip to Nat Fallacy Files : The Back of the Envelope Young People By the Numbers « The Problem with Young People Today Is… xkcd - A Webcomic - Flies Why we walk in circles without directional cues - Boing Boing Professor Paul Krugman at war with Niall Ferguson over inflation - Times Online

There are books that should be read repeatedly. I must have read Plato's Republic 10 times and I discover new things about it in every reading. Eric Hobsbawm's On Empire is one such book. How can anybody but Hobsbawm combine such wisdom and thoughtfulness in one volume? He writes with such a breadth of knowledge and grasp of facts that only Braudel, Toynbee, and Gibbon are capable of. When you read Hobsbawm on the nature of international relations in the 21st century, and then go back and rLove him or hate him Niall Ferguson is an opinionated fellow who makes you think...Love him or hate him Niall Ferguson is an opinionated fellow who makes you think. He currently is in an economic p***ing war with the New York Times Paul Krugman over this, that, or the other but I wanted to point out this interesting piece in Newsweek on how he views the long term relationship between Chimerica. We ha

From the Center for American Progress: Earlier this year, Congress passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 without a single Republican vote in the House of Representatives and with the support of only three Republicans in the Senate. This stimulus bill, which included $552 billion in spending and $275 billion in tax cuts , has provided much-needed support to state and local economies across the country. Cognizant to this fact, conservatives have jumped on the chanceSyFy has given the green light for a fourth season of the quirky little town “Eureka.” The network picked up the option for a fourth season of 22 episodes, according to SciFi Wire.  The current season was originally picked up for 21, but was cut back to 18 due to last year’s writer’s strike.  The final episode of the third season airs tonight. Actress Erica Cerra, who plays Deputy Jo Lupo,  was happy that the show will continue for a fourth year. “We were thrilled, and more so that it’s 22

Today’s idea: “The cross-country road trip is the supreme example of the journey as the destination,” writes Paul Theroux. And it can be an intensely American experience, for “we are a country without roadblocks.”Travel | Steinbeck, Kerouac, and now Theroux. The travel writer and novelist is so identified with the foreign and the exotic that it’s easy to forget he’s American. But he’d never driven across America until Smithsonian approached him recently about taking on his dream travel assignmen27 August, 2009 — MRZine – Monthly ReviewOliver Grant.  Migration and Inequality in Germany.  Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005.  416 pp.  $190.00 , ISBN 978-0-19-927656-1.Leo Lucassen.  The Immigrant Threat: The Integration of Old and New Migrants in Western Europe since 1850.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005.  296 pp.  $25.00 , ISBN 978-0-252-07294-9.Elia Morandi.  Italiener in Hamburg: Migration, Arbeit und Alltagsleben vom Kaiserreich bis zur Gegenwart.  Frankfurt am MaiTHE GUARDIAN A seven-part series To mark the 70th anniversary of World War II, we’re re-examining this global conflict from a range of perspectives. In each of the seven parts we look at the key events, disputes and figures that defined this era, drawing on a wealth of expert knowledge . On day one Niall Ferguson chronicles the origins of the war from 1919 -1939 including the Versailles treaty, the great

by Ben Cohen An interesting spat has developed between intellectual giants Paul Krugman and Niall Ferguson, pitting progressive Keynesian thought against Friedmanite monetarism. The argument centers... ]I’ve got two new posts up at my new alternative bloghome, in which I launch vicious scathing attacks on well-known people.  Bet they’re scared: Niall Ferguson as ‘poseur’: the case for the prosecution Polly Toynbee and the Missing Mega-earning Myth

News about Niall Ferguson. Commentary and archival information about Niall Ferguson from The New York Times.Niall Ferguson. William Ziegler Professor of Business Administration. Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University and William ...I'm sure Niall Ferguson is a fine historian. But his real talent, it seems, is for digging ditches. Paul Krugman and Jim Fallows have written good posts on this already, but it ...Since at least late spring, economist Paul Krugman and historian Niall Ferguson have been embroiled in a bitter feud, which today boiled over into name-calling. Herein, a brief ...