Actually, if I'd wanted to sell lots of books, I should have writtenFun: The Politics of Partying, which is probably the book that people feel like reading. But if we're to understand the situation that we're in – and after all, this disaster ain't over –then we need, I think,...
That’s when I went down the rabbit hole and started…I was very interested in property rights. I’d had a lot to do…quite a bit to do with Hernando de Soto, and met him, and have written about things with him, and I was very interested in this idea that we…that...
As for Niall's father, a Glasgow doctor, he whisked his family off to do good works in Kenya for a couple of years in the 1960s. You don't have to look far to find out why Niall Ferguson has written so powerfully about war and empire; the subjects are in his blood. This ...