Where did money come from? And where did it all go? Last year (2007) the income of the average American (just under $34,000) went up by at most 5 per cent.1 But the cost of living rose by 4.1 per ...

Niall Ferguson, author of "Ascent of Money," talks with Kai Ryssdal about how competition between banks and their drive to boost share prices has led to today's financial mess.

In ASCENT OF MONEY, economist, author and historian Ferguson offers insight into these questions by taking viewers step-by-step through the milestones of the financial history that created this ...

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Funding for THE ASCENT OF MONEY is provided by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, T.Rowe Price, The Smith Richardson Foundation, James and Merryl Tisch, and PBS.

In "The Ascent of Money: a Financial History of the World," British historian Niall Ferguson discusses the current economic meltdown in the context of historic cycles of euphoria and panic, ...

PBSsNiall Ferguson hosts The Ascent of Money on PBS This blog is all about money and how not to get too excited or worried about it while also caring for it carefully. But It's Only Money is kinda ...

“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 ...

In his new book The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World, historian Niall Ferguson argues that money, in its many forms, is the "root of most human progress." He traces money's ...