Update: here is Ferguson's panel Q&A, which also features Chrystia Freeland, George Akerlof, Andres Velasco, and Min Zhu.
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Thursday, April 14
Video: Niall Ferguson's Presentation at Bretton Woods
Update: here is Ferguson's panel Q&A, which also features Chrystia Freeland, George Akerlof, Andres Velasco, and Min Zhu.
Monday, February 14
Video: Niall Ferguson on The Political Economy of the Cold War
18 October 2010 (Part 1 in the lecture series)
At its heart the Cold War was a competition between two economic systems. Despite having in common a "military-industrial complex", they were profoundly different in the degree of freedom they offered their citizens, the living standards they were able to achieve and the pace of technological innovation they could sustain. In this first lecture, Niall Ferguson compares and contrasts the United States and the Soviet Union in the Cold War and asks how far the outcome of the Cold War was economically determined from the outset. In particular, what role did commercial and financial globalization play in enhancing U.S. power in the world? And how serious a threat did inflation pose to the United States in the 1970s?
At its heart the Cold War was a competition between two economic systems. Despite having in common a "military-industrial complex", they were profoundly different in the degree of freedom they offered their citizens, the living standards they were able to achieve and the pace of technological innovation they could sustain. In this first lecture, Niall Ferguson compares and contrasts the United States and the Soviet Union in the Cold War and asks how far the outcome of the Cold War was economically determined from the outset. In particular, what role did commercial and financial globalization play in enhancing U.S. power in the world? And how serious a threat did inflation pose to the United States in the 1970s?
Video: Niall Ferguson on The Third World's War
24 November 2010 (Part 2 in the lecture series)
Although never a "hot" war between the superpowers, the Cold War was waged partly through a series of proxy wars in Third World countries from Guatemala to Korea to Vietnam. Although a great deal of attention has been devoted to a select number of U.S. Interventions in the Third World, there is an urgent need to see the "Third World's War" in perspective, showing how successful the Soviet Union was in pursuing a strategy of fomenting revolution and how consistently successive U.S. administrations behaved in response.
Although never a "hot" war between the superpowers, the Cold War was waged partly through a series of proxy wars in Third World countries from Guatemala to Korea to Vietnam. Although a great deal of attention has been devoted to a select number of U.S. Interventions in the Third World, there is an urgent need to see the "Third World's War" in perspective, showing how successful the Soviet Union was in pursuing a strategy of fomenting revolution and how consistently successive U.S. administrations behaved in response.
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