On this week’s episode of the Governance Podcast, our Associate Director Dr. Samuel DeCanio interviews historian Niall Ferguson from the Hoover Institution. This episode is titled “Counterfactual History with Niall Ferguson”. Some of the questions they will explore are:

How did historian Niall Ferguson become interested in the discipline of history?
How can policymakers learn from history?
How does our past inform our present?
What is counterfactual history?
Is counterfactual history useful for historical analysis and policymaking?

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