#239 – Niall Ferguson

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #239:

  1. The Age of AI: And Our Human Future by Henry A Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, Daniel Huttenlocher
  2. The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
  3. Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society by Nicholas A. Christakis
  4. Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe by Niall Ferguson
  5. The Pity Of War: Explaining World War I by Niall Ferguson
  6. The Road Less Traveled: The Secret Battle to End the Great War, 1916-1917 by Philip D. Zelikow
  7. Kissinger: 1923-1968: The Idealist by Niall Ferguson
  8. Uncontrolled Spread: Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic by Scott Gottlieb
  9. The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook by Niall Ferguson
  10. The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz

Niall Campbell Ferguson FRSE is a Scottish-American historian based in the United States who is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. Wikipedia


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