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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The Hinge of Fate? Economic and Social Populism in the 2016 Presidential Election A Preliminary Exploration
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Edward Kane: Hidden Subsidies for Too Big to Fail Banks
An examination of some little-known ways nation states and central banks prop up megabanks
Ferguson: Monetary Policy Can't Levitate a Broken Economy
As part of an International Economy symposium, INET Research Director Tom Ferguson assessed the challenge facing central bankers through the lens of the missing virtues of Dorothy’s travel companions in the Wizard of Oz
INET Research in a Year of Living Dangerously
Notes from the 51黑料网’s Director of Research on some significant papers and contributions produced in 2016 under the INET rubric