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I can't think of anything I would rather do with my money than buy my children the best possible education.

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I was never a very convincing social conservative, and always avoided associating myself with that part of the broader conservative movement.

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I would say I'm a 19th-century liberal, possibly even an 18th-century one.

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My fundamental tenets are concerned with freedom of the individual; the market isn't perfect, but it's the best available way of allocating resources.

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The rise of the West is, quite simply, the pre-eminent historical phenomenon of the second half of the second millennium after Christ.

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I think the rise of quantitative econometrics and a highly mathematical approach to risk management was the obverse of a decline in interest in financial history.

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Risk models are a substitute for historical knowledge, because they tend to work with just three years' worth of data. But three years is not a long time in financial history.

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What's so seductive about the efficient markets hypothesis is that it applies nine years out of ten. A lot of the time it works. But when it stops working, you blow up.

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President Obama's biggest weakness is weakness.

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I have three kids in Britain, and I am there at least once a month.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Historian

Born: April 18th, 1964

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