Niall Ferguson Gives a Talk About The Square and the Tower

Niall Ferguson the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, gave a talk titled The Square and the Tower: Networks, Hierarchies, and the Struggle for Global Power from the Freemasons to Facebook Drawing on his new book The Square and the Tower, Ferguson puts social networks in historical context, explaining six key principles that deal with networks and what they imply about policy and governance in the world today.