Niall Ferguson books- several books but bankers are about the tower

- the financial system is the tower



- the social networks are the square

## books

2011 [The Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective](https://www.amazon.com/Shock-Global-1970s-Perspective/dp/0674061861/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&qid=1594554973&refinements=p_27%3ANiall+Ferguson&s=books&sr=1-2)

[The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0018QQQKS/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0)

[The House of Rothschild: Volume 1: Money's Prophets: 1798-1848](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002VFPRVY/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i4)

[the West developed six "killer applications" that the Rest lacked: competition, science, democracy, medicine, consumerism and the work ethic.](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0054TVW04/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i2)

## blog

[Why Twitter, Facebook and Google are the antisocial networks](http://www.niallferguson.com/journalism/miscellany/why-twitter-facebook-and-google-are-the-antisocial-networks)

## compare and make some conclusions 

- [Joined-up politics: how social networks have shaped events](https://knowen-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/file/4640/niall%2Bferguson.pdf)
In ‘The Square and the Tower’, Niall Ferguson proposes an alternative to top-down history

- [Do hierarchies lead to a stronger society?](https://knowen-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/file/4641/china%2Bhierarchies.pdf)
Drawing on China and Confucian culture, two books make the case against political equality via
top-down rule and meritocracy

[The basic principle of **Russell Conjugation is that the human mind is constantly looking ahead** well beyond what is true or false to ask “What is t**he social consequence of accepting** the facts as they are?”](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27181)
**....the war for our minds and attention is now increasingly being waged over neither facts nor opinions but feelings.**

- [Too Connected to Fail](https://knowen-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/file/4642/too%2Bconnected.pdf) May 4, 2020 Rusty Guinn

>  The common knowledge about what markets are for is now “to give us the returns we need.” 

> ... designed to ensure equity prices and credit spreads hold within certain acceptable
> boundaries under the laughably thin veneer of “maintaining liquidity” by huge swaths of
> market participants who are among those who “need the returns”.