# Niall Ferguson British-American historian, senior fellow at the [[Hoover Institution]], and one of the four founders of the [[University of Austin]] (UATX), where he has been a trustee since the start. His 2011 book *Civilization: The West and the Rest* is a standard text of modern [[Declinism]], and he was among the signers of the 2010 open letter warning Ben Bernanke that the Federal Reserve's bond purchases risked inflation (see the [[Interest Rate Policy Timeline]]). ## Why it's on the map Ferguson is the academic name among UATX's founders, beside the investor [[Joe Lonsdale]], the journalist [[Bari Weiss]] and the founding president [[Pano Kanelos]]. By [[Politico]]'s account of the university's 2025 governance fight, he was the founder who stepped in after Lonsdale told the faculty what politics the university required of them. > [!note] Stub > This is a short entry that hasn't been fully written yet. ## Connections - [[University of Austin]] · [[Joe Lonsdale]] · [[Bari Weiss]] · [[Pano Kanelos]] - [[Hoover Institution]] · [[Declinism]] · [[Interest Rate Policy Timeline]]