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Niall Ferguson finds the future in the past

Kevin Chinnery
Kevin ChinneryOpinion editor

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He's running late. It's an occupational hazard for a rock star professor juggling the global lecture circuit, high-brow talk shows and op ed pages, and advising board rooms on what might be lurking around the corner.

Harvard's Niall Ferguson has single-handedly propelled economic history – a subject sadly underdone in Australian universities – into the global limelight.

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Kevin Chinnery is the opinion editor and an editorial leader writer. He covered trade and industry across the Asia-Pacific region from Singapore and Hong Kong, and is a former editor of BRW magazine. Connect with Kevin on Twitter. Email Kevin at kchinnery@afr.com

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