Yeah, Ferguson is a plant, I think. He just put RWR on a platform of economic glory - gag. Ferguson is a historian and writer of popular history books and he is sounding a whole lot like an ideologue (e.g., keeps saying “Keynesian” in a subtly derogatory manner without really explaining what he means.)

Krugman may be incorrect in some of his assumptions about the future, but Ferguson doesn’t impress at all.