The Ascent of Money

[Daos]

As the world continues to struggle to find its footing amid rising unemployment, constricted credit and crumbling banks and industries — raising questions about how the economic system collapsed — PBS presents Niall Ferguson’s ASCENT OF MONEY. This groundbreaking four-part series examines the creation of the economic system by taking viewers on a global trek through the history of money.

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[The Lawspeaker]

Spoiler!

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The Ascent of Money
by Niall Ferguson (BBC)

[joe blowe]

great book !!

[Joe McCarthy]

Perhaps the greatest thinker alive today.

[Loddfafner]

Threads merged.

[Troll's Puzzle]

Perhaps the greatest thinker alive today.

I can see why

Ferguson teaches a course entitled "Western Ascendancy: The Mainsprings of Global Power from 1600 to the Present."

bet you find the title of that course.... titillating.

Ferguson supported the Iraq war and isn't necessarily opposed to future incursions in the world.

"It's all very well for us to sit here in the west with our high incomes and cushy lives, and say it's immoral to violate the sovereignty of another state. But if the effect of that is to bring people in that country economic and political freedom, to raise their standard of living, to increase their life expectancy, then don't rule it out."

HOOAH!

this is especially 'western' of him:

Ferguson (...) separated from Douglas and started dating former Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Ferguson married Hirsi Ali in September 2011.
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In an interview with The Guardian, Ferguson spoke about his love for Ali, who, he writes in the preface, "understands better than anyone I know what Western civilisation really means – and what it still has to offer the world"
Ali, he continued,

"grew up in the Muslim world, was born in Somalia, spent time in Saudi Arabia, was a fundamentalist as a teenager. Her journey from the world of her childhood and family to where she is today is an odyssey that's extremely hard for you or I to imagine. To see and hear how she understands western philosophy, how she understands the great thinkers of the Enlightenment, of the 19th-century liberal era, is a great privilege, because she sees it with a clarity and freshness of perspective that's really hard for us to match. So much of liberalism in its classical sense is taken for granted in the west today and even disrespected. We take freedom for granted, and because of this we don't understand how incredibly vulnerable it is."

here's a particularly 'western' photo of her:



YAY WESTERNISM!

[Joe McCarthy]

Somehow I knew someone would post a pic of his negress bed mate. Osweo did the same on one of my Ferguson threads.