Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre, moolah, readies, the wherewithal: call it what you like, money matters. To Christians, the love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it is the sinews ...

Economic historian Niall Ferguson explores that idea, and many more, in his new book “The Ascent of Money.” Good to have you with us. Niall Ferguson: It’s nice to be here Kai. Ryssdal ...

In the four-hour version of THE ASCENT OF MONEY, historian and author Niall Ferguson seeks to explain the financial history of the world, exploring how our complex system of global finance evolved ...

Or at least the one we had yesterday. From the beginnings of money and debt to the arrival of bond markets, pension funds, futures trading and our modern addiction to property, Ferguson traces a ...

Niall Ferguson’s latest book, “The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World,” went to press in May 2008, but it shrewdly anticipates many aspects of the current financial crisis ...

On the face of it, this is the perfect time for Niall Ferguson to produce The Ascent of Money: a Financial History of the World. The difficulty is that far from ascending, money seems to be in ...

But It's Only Money is kinda excited about a four-part documentary beginning tonight on many PBS stations, including OPB: The Ascent of Money (Hattip to Get Rich Slowly). In it, economist and ...

“The Ascent of Money,” by Niall Ferguson. Recommended by James McCusker, a Bothell economist, educator and consultant who also writes for the Herald and the Snohomish County Business Journal.

ASCENT OF MONEY is based on Ferguson’s best-selling book The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World, which predicted the current economic crisis and was released within weeks of the ...