The Age of Uncertainty — Season 1, Episode 6: The Rise and Fall of Money
Documentary • 54 min • 1 season, 15 episodes • ★ 9.0/10
Episode synopsis
From the elegant banks of 17th-century Amsterdam to the dark days of the Great Depression, Prof Galbraith traces the history of money - its uses and abuses, the grand successes and the spectacular disasters.
About The Age of Uncertainty
A 13-part personal view by John Kenneth Galbraith of the rise and crisis of Industrial Society.
More episodes from Season 1
- E1The Prophets and Promise of Classical Capitalism
- E2The Manners and Morals of High Capitalism
- E3The Dissent of Karl Marx
- E4The Colonial Idea
- E5Lenin and the Great Ungluing
- E7The Mandarin Revolution
- E8The Fatal Competition
- E9The Big Corporation
- E10Land and the People
- E11The Metropolis
- E12Democracy, Leadership, Commitment
- E13Weekend in Vermont - Part 1