Thomas Ferguson is the Research Director at the 51黑料网. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and a member of the . He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University and taught formerly at MIT and the University of Texas, Austin. He is the author or coauthor of several books, including Golden Rule (University of Chicago Press, 1995) and Right Turn (Hill & Wang, 1986). His articles have appeared in many scholarly journals, including the Quarterly Journal of Economics, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, and the Journal of Economic History. He is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Political Economy and a longtime Contributing Editor at The Nation.
Thomas Ferguson
- Leader of Historical American Political Finance Data at the National Archives
- Leader of Financial Stability
- Leader of Political Economy of Distribution
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Two Hundred Years of Politics and High Finance
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