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Many of the comments here, both pro and con, confuse two issues. One is whether NF is right or left, or loved by the right or left. That is not an issue for Wikipedia, unless his work is so bad as to not merit attention except on political grounds. It is not.
There is a different, and more serious issue which should be part of this entry: his work is actually quite mediocre. Without his endless self-promotion, his wife's connections, etc., he would be viewed for what he is, a not very good popularizer of claims that are banal, wrong, or not his own.
I say this with some authority; I do not want to reveal my identity, but I can say in all seriousness that even those who agree with him think he has done almost nothing serious as a scholar, and that none of his work since the Rothschild book can be taken at all seriously. I should also say that even that work leans very heavily on the work of others, and he does not acknowledge that truth. The work since often is little more than a summary of what others have done, and again, he is not always generous about acknowledging that he is just repeating something already said better, elsewhere. Magacepas ( talk) 13:37, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Thank you Magacepas. You have stated the problem clearly and accurately, for all the good it will do: he continues playing the media and providing an academic fig leaf for big money.
88.110.112.62 (
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Fascinating. I can't figure out whether Magacepas's is motivated by academic, jealousy, political ideology, or a mixture of all three. For what it's worth, I note that the criticism section vis-a-vis the British Empire is two and half time the length devoted to what he has actually said on the subject. That doesn't feel right for a encyclopaedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.183.147.172 ( talk) 01:43, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
Why does the sidebar summary say "Scientific career"? It doesn't look like he has any science background at all. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 154.5.54.48 ( talk) 03:24, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
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I created a Niall Ferguson bibliography page, to shorten this article and so people can expand and better that list and rekejigger this "selected" bibliography here. Please make both pages better! TuckerResearch ( talk) 13:40, 11 May 2022 (UTC)
I recently became aware of Mr. Ferguson's association with a new university, University of Austin. UATX https://www.uaustin.org/ . He is a trustee and a faculty member. His wife is a fellow there, and on board of advisors. UATX will welcome its first class of students Fall 2024. This can be reviewed and included somewhere in the main articles of this Wikipedia entry. I am a novice at entering comments on Wikipedia, so I hope I put this subject in the right place. At the moment, I don't feel qualified to create a new entry regarding Ferguson and this university.
There is a Wikipedia entry for UATX /info/en/?search=University_of_Austin where Mr. Ferguson is mentioned in "Further Reading" Markmollymags ( talk) 14:20, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
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Many of the comments here, both pro and con, confuse two issues. One is whether NF is right or left, or loved by the right or left. That is not an issue for Wikipedia, unless his work is so bad as to not merit attention except on political grounds. It is not.
There is a different, and more serious issue which should be part of this entry: his work is actually quite mediocre. Without his endless self-promotion, his wife's connections, etc., he would be viewed for what he is, a not very good popularizer of claims that are banal, wrong, or not his own.
I say this with some authority; I do not want to reveal my identity, but I can say in all seriousness that even those who agree with him think he has done almost nothing serious as a scholar, and that none of his work since the Rothschild book can be taken at all seriously. I should also say that even that work leans very heavily on the work of others, and he does not acknowledge that truth. The work since often is little more than a summary of what others have done, and again, he is not always generous about acknowledging that he is just repeating something already said better, elsewhere. Magacepas ( talk) 13:37, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Thank you Magacepas. You have stated the problem clearly and accurately, for all the good it will do: he continues playing the media and providing an academic fig leaf for big money.
88.110.112.62 (
talk)
11:57, 17 June 2012 (UTC)
Fascinating. I can't figure out whether Magacepas's is motivated by academic, jealousy, political ideology, or a mixture of all three. For what it's worth, I note that the criticism section vis-a-vis the British Empire is two and half time the length devoted to what he has actually said on the subject. That doesn't feel right for a encyclopaedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.183.147.172 ( talk) 01:43, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
Why does the sidebar summary say "Scientific career"? It doesn't look like he has any science background at all. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 154.5.54.48 ( talk) 03:24, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect
Cash nexus. The discussion will occur at
Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 August 12#Cash nexus until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. –
Arms & Hearts (
talk)
19:15, 12 August 2021 (UTC)
I created a Niall Ferguson bibliography page, to shorten this article and so people can expand and better that list and rekejigger this "selected" bibliography here. Please make both pages better! TuckerResearch ( talk) 13:40, 11 May 2022 (UTC)
I recently became aware of Mr. Ferguson's association with a new university, University of Austin. UATX https://www.uaustin.org/ . He is a trustee and a faculty member. His wife is a fellow there, and on board of advisors. UATX will welcome its first class of students Fall 2024. This can be reviewed and included somewhere in the main articles of this Wikipedia entry. I am a novice at entering comments on Wikipedia, so I hope I put this subject in the right place. At the moment, I don't feel qualified to create a new entry regarding Ferguson and this university.
There is a Wikipedia entry for UATX /info/en/?search=University_of_Austin where Mr. Ferguson is mentioned in "Further Reading" Markmollymags ( talk) 14:20, 12 December 2023 (UTC)