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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 β€œMoney answereth all things” and Timothy says β€œThe love of money is the root of all evil”. It is a theme that seems to echo down the centuries with seemingly everyone from Karl Marx to the cast of Cabaret crying out β€œMoney makes the world go around”. 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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45 minutes

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Thu 1 Mar 2001 21:30

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  • Thu 1 Mar 2001 09:02
  • Thu 1 Mar 2001 21:30

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