Money
Melvyn Bragg examines whether economic factors are really behind all historical events.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the power of Money. In the Bible the Old Testament and the New Testament appear to agree about the power of money: Ecclesiastes says βMoney answereth all thingsβ and Timothy says βThe love of money is the root of all evilβ. It is a theme that seems to echo down the centuries with seemingly everyone from Karl Marx to the cast of Cabaret crying out βMoney makes the world go aroundβ. But are economic factors really the invisible hand behind all historical events? Can everything in the end be brought down to the influence of money? With Niall Ferguson, Professor of Political and Financial History at the University of Oxford; Richard J Evans, Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge; Jane Humphries, reader in Economic History at Oxford University.
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- Thu 1 Mar 2001 09:02ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
- Thu 1 Mar 2001 21:30ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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