尼爾·弗格森

**尼爾·坎貝爾·道格拉斯·弗格森爵士**（；）是位大不列顛國籍的歷史學者，現任職為哈佛大學的提胥講座教授、牛津大學耶穌學院等大學機構的資深研究員。他的專長是與世界史、經濟史、惡性通貨膨脹、基金市場、美國暨英國的帝國主義等的相關研究。

弗格森的著作包括《帝國：大英世界秩序興衰以及給世界強權的啟示》、《貨幣崛起：金融資本如何改變世界歷史及其未來之路》與《文明：決定人類走向的六大殺手級Apps》均已製作成電視專題影集。

2004年，他登上《時代雜誌》的世界前100大具影響力的人物。

## 早年
弗格森1964年4月18日生於蘇格蘭格拉斯哥。父親是醫生，母親是物理教師。他後來就學於格拉斯哥學校，在無神論的學習環境下成長；儘管認為基督教道德對於社會有很大的幫助，並鼓勵孩童需要上教堂，但至今他仍保持著無神論者的觀點。

弗格森曾提及自他幼年起，他的醫生父親就開始培養他具有高度的自律意識和敬業的態度，他身任物理教師的母親負責培養他的創意性；他曾任新聞記者的外婆則鼓勵他寫作。弗格森在大學時代，一度無法從英國文學和歷史學擇一做為主修學系，後來是由於閱讀了名著《戰爭與和平》而選擇了歷史學。

## 著作
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### 共同著作

* "Let Germany Keep Its Nerve", *The Spectator*, April 22, 1995, pages 21–23
* “Europa nervosa”, in Nader Mousavizadeh (ed.), *The Black Book of Bosnia* (New Republic/Basic Books, 1996), pp.&nbsp;127–32
* “The German inter-war economy: Political choice versus economic determinism” in Mary Fulbrook (ed.), *German History since 1800* (Arnold, 1997), pp.&nbsp;258–278
* “The balance of payments question: Versailles and after” in Manfred F. Boemeke, Gerald D. Feldman and Elisabeth Glaser (eds.), *The Treaty of Versailles: A Reassessment after 75 Years* (Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp.&nbsp;401–440
* “-{‘The Caucasian Royal Family’: The Rothschilds in national contexts}-” in R. Liedtke (ed.), *: The Historical Experience of British and German Jews in Comparison* (J.C.B. Mohr, 1999)
* “Academics and the Press”, in Stephen Glover (ed.), *Secrets of the Press: Journalists on Journalism* (Penguin, 1999), pp.&nbsp;206–220
* “Metternich and the Rothschilds: A reappraisal” in Andrea Hamel and Edward Timms (eds.), *Progress and Emancipation in the Age of Metternich: Jews and Modernisation in Austria and Germany, 1815–1848* (Edwin Mellen Press, 1999), pp.&nbsp;295–325
* “The European economy, 1815–1914” in T.C.W. Blanning (ed.), *The Short Oxford History of Europe: The Nineteenth Century* (Oxford University Press, 2000), pp.&nbsp;78–125
* “How (not) to pay for the war: Traditional finance and total war” in Roger Chickering and Stig Förster (eds.), *Great War, Total War: Combat and Mobilization on the Western Front* (Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp.&nbsp;409–34
* “Introduction” in Frederic Manning, *Middle Parts of Fortune* (Penguin, 2000), pp. vii–xviii
* “Clashing civilizations or mad mullahs: The United States between informal and formal empire” in Strobe Talbott (ed.), *The Age of Terror* (Basic Books, 2001), pp.&nbsp;113–41
* “Public debt as a post-war problem: The German experience after 1918 in comparative perspective” in Mark Roseman (ed.), *Three Post-War Eras in Comparison: Western Europe 1918-1945-1989* (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2002), pp.&nbsp;99–119
* “Das Haus Sachsen-Coburg und die europäische Politik des 19. Jahrhunderts”, in Rainer von Hessen (ed.), *Victoria Kaiserin Friedrich (1840–1901): Mission und Schicksal einer englischen Prinzessin in Deutschland* (Campus Verlag, 2002), pp.&nbsp;27–39
* “Max Warburg and German politics: The limits of financial power in Wilhelmine Germany”, in Geoff Eley and James Retallack (eds.), *Wilhelminism and Its Legacies: German Modernities, Imperialism and the Meaning of Reform, 1890–1930* (Berghahn Books, 2003), pp.&nbsp;185–201
* “Introduction”, *The Death of the Past* by J. H. Plumb (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), pp. xxi–xlii
* “Globalization in historical perspective: The political dimension”, in Michael D. Bordo, Alan M. Taylor and Jeffrey G. Williamson (eds.), *Globalisation in Historical Perspective* (National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report) (University of Chicago Press, 2003)
* “Introduction to Tzvetan Todorov” in Nicholas Owen (ed.), *Human Rights, Human Wrongs: Oxford Amnesty Lectures* (Amnesty International, 2003)
* “The City of London and British imperialism: New light on an old question”, in Youssef Cassis and Eric Bussière (eds.), *London and Paris as International Financial Centres in the Twentieth Century* (Oxford University Press, 2004), pp.&nbsp;57–77
* “A bolt from the blue? The City of London and the outbreak of the First World War”, in Wm. Roger Louis (ed.), *Yet More Adventures with Britainnia: Personalities, Politics and Culture in Britain* (I.B. Tauris, 2005), pp.&nbsp;133–145
* “-{The first ‘Eurobonds’: The Rothschilds and the financing of the Holy Alliance, 1818–1822}-”, in William N. Goetzmann and K. Geert Rouwenhorst (eds.), *The Origins of Value: The Financial Innovations that Created Modern Capital Markets* (Oxford University Press, 2005), pp.&nbsp;311–323
* “Prisoner taking and prisoner killing in the age of total war”, in George Kassemiris (ed.), *The Barbarization of Warfare* (New York University Press, 2006), pp.&nbsp;126–158
* “The Second World War as an economic disaster”, in Michael Oliver (ed.), *Economic Disasters of the Twentieth Century* (Edward Elgar, 2007), pp.&nbsp;83–132
* “The Problem of Conjecture: American Strategy after the Bush Doctrine”, in Melvyn Leffler and Jeff Legro (eds.), *To Lead the World: American Strategy After the Bush Doctrine* (Oxford University Press, 2008)

### 電視紀錄片
* *Empire* 《帝國》（2003年）
* *American Colossus* 《美國競技場》（2004年）
* *The War of the World* 《世界大戰》（2006年）
* *The Ascent of Money* 《貨幣崛起》（2008年）
* *Civilization: Is the West History? * 《文明》（2011年）
* *China: Triumph and Turmoil* 《中國的崛起與動盪》（2012年）
* *The Pity of War* （2014年）

## 參考來源
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## 外部連結

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* Facebook Fan Page of Niall Ferguson 
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* The Ascent of Money Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce
* Audio: Niall Ferguson in conversation  *The Forum*, BBC World Service
* Hans Koning Still Not Over Over There?  The Nation, August 1999 – Review of *The Pity of War*
* Martin Rubin A Banker to the Rescue  WSJ.com, 26 June 2010
* Liaquat Ahamed Yesterday's Banker  NYTimes.com, 30 July 2010
* The Sun Sets in the West  Oxonian Review, 4 April 2011 – Review of *Civilization*
* An Interview with Niall Ferguson , *Oxonian Review*, 9 April 2011
* Niall Ferguson and the brain-dead American right , May 24, 2011