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The Ascent of Money
(Part 3 of 4)
Starting in post-Katrina New Orleans, Ferguson asks why the free market can't seem to provide adequate protection against disasters. His quest takes him to the origins of modern insurance in 18th-century Scotland, home of the first modern pension fund. Private initiatives like pension funds and insurance companies seemed to many people to have solved the problem of financial risk management by 1900. Yet the 20th century exposed their limits. So vast were the catastrophes of the world wars that an alternative model had to be adopted: the welfare state, the natural offspring of the warfare state. Today, as the welfare state wanes, more and more people see their homes as their best insurance against old age and ill health. But is the property-owning democracy really as safe as houses? Or does the subprime crisis suggest that our financial system has actually created a whole new kind of risk, potentially as devastating as a hurricane?
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Episode Guide
The Ascent of Money
(Part 4 of 4)
first aired: July 29, 2009 (#104)
Emerging markets used to be where emergencies occurred. Now, they're where ...
(Part 3 of 4)
first aired: July 22, 2009 (#103)
Starting in post-Katrina New Orleans, Ferguson asks why the free market ...
(Part 2 of 4)
first aired: July 15, 2009 (#102)
Why do stock markets produce bubbles and busts? The answer is that they ...
(Part 1 of 4)
first aired: July 8, 2009 (#101)
From ancient Mesopotamia to Renaissance Italy, Niall Ferguson explains ...
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