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Niall Ferguson on History

born 1964 Scotland

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Economic history is not politically correct. Many on the left therefore struggle with its findings.

The whole point about historians is that we are really communing with the dead. It's very restful – because you read. There's some sociopathic problem that makes me prefer it to human interaction.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Niall Ferguson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.