“The great thing about behavioural psychology and economics is that the...” — Niall Ferguson Quote

“The great thing about behavioural psychology and economics is that they help us to see that there are actually pretty good reasons why human beings swing from greed to fear, and why we're not really calculating machines or utility-maximisers.”

“The British press has an insatiable appetite for making public things that should be private. It's a prurience that I've never understood.”

“As a financial historian, I was quite isolated in Oxford - British historians are supposed to write about kings - so the quality of intellectual life in my field is much higher at Harvard. The students work harder there.”

“I'm calculating, self-sufficient, reserved, and I enjoy being alone.”

“I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.”

“I have to be a lot more calculating because I'm a very private person. I actually really struggle with the attention; I'm generally a pretty shy kind of a person. So it's tough figuring out how to manage it. But there are ways of managing it, and you just have to be smart.”