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The Ascent of Money
Niall Ferguson ISBN 9789750820984
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Niall Ferguson ISBN 9789750820984
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This book by Niall Ferguson has come up 10 times on Lex Fridman. 9 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: Lex Fridman. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2020-03-03 and the most recent from 2021-11-08. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance.Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre, moolah, readies, the wherewithal: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it's the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it's the chains of labor. But in The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson shows that finance is in fact the foundation of human progress.
“in the book ascent of money you give a history of the world through the lens of money if the financial system is uh evolutionary nature”— Lex Fridman
The guest here is Niall Ferguson: Scottish-American historian and author of 16 books on money, power, war, and empire; formerly at Harvard, now at Stanford's Hoover Institution and a co-founder of the University of Austin. Historian Niall Ferguson on launching a free-speech university, the evolution of money and crypto, counterfactual world wars, COVID leadership, and the meaning of life.
“i recommend ascent of money as a great book on this history debits and credits on ledgers started around 30 000 years ago”— Lex Fridman
The guest here is David Eagleman: Neuroscientist, Stanford professor, and bestselling science communicator known for popularizing brain research. He runs Neosensory, a company building sensory-substitution wearables, and authored Livewired and Incognito. Neuroscientist David Eagleman explains why the brain is not hardware plus software but a constantly self-rewiring 'livewired' system.
“i recommend the scent of money as a great book on this history debits and credits on ledgers started around 30 000 years ago”— Lex Fridman
The guest here is Sara Seager: Planetary scientist and astrophysicist at MIT, a pioneer in the search for exoplanets and their atmospheres. She created the Seager equation and authored the memoir 'The Smallest Lights in the Universe.'. MIT planetary scientist Sara Seager on hunting exoplanets, reading alien atmospheres for life, and finding hope after losing her husband.
“I recommend a cent of money as a great book in this history debits and credits on Ledger's started around 30,000 years ago”— Lex Fridman
The guest here is Peter Singer: Influential bioethics professor best known for the 1975 book Animal Liberation and a key popularizer of the effective altruism movement, widely regarded as one of the most influential living philosophers. Peter Singer and Lex Fridman explore the nature of suffering across humans, animals, and AI, plus ethics, utilitarianism, and effective altruism.
“I recommend the scent of money as a great book on this history also the audio book is amazing”— Lex Fridman
The guest here is David Patterson: Turing Award-winning computer scientist and UC Berkeley professor, known for pioneering RISC processor architecture and co-creating RAID storage. Co-author with John Hennessy of the seminal textbook Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach. Turing Award winner David Patterson explains how RISC and RAID reshaped computing, and why Moore's law is ending.
“I recommend a cent of money as a great book on this history debits and credits on Ledger's started around 30,000 years ago”— Lex Fridman
The guest here is Steven Pressfield: Bestselling author of The War of Art and historical-fiction novels like Gates of Fire about the Spartans. He is renowned for articulating the creative struggle against 'Resistance.'. Steven Pressfield reframes war as a metaphor for the inner creative battle, casting Resistance as the ego's fearful enemy of the self.
“since cash app allows you to buy bitcoin let me mention that cryptocurrency in the context of the history of money is fascinating i recommend ascent of money as a great book on this history”— Lex Fridman
The guest here is Ilya Sutskever: Co-founder and chief scientist of OpenAI and one of the most cited computer scientists in history. He co-authored the landmark AlexNet paper that helped launch the modern deep learning revolution. OpenAI's Ilya Sutskever explains why deep learning works, what's missing for reasoning and AGI, and how AI power should be governed.
“I recommend a cent of money as a great book on this history debits and credits on Ledger's started around 30,000 years ago”— Lex Fridman
The guest here is Dmitry Korkin: Professor of bioinformatics and computational biology at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). His group reconstructed the 3D structure of SARS-CoV-2's major viral proteins early in 2020 and made the structural genomics data openly available to researchers. Computational biologist Dmitry Korkin explains how bioinformatics maps the coronavirus's proteins to speed up drugs and vaccines.
“I recommend a cent of money as a great book on this history debits and credits on Ledger's started”— Lex Fridman
The guest here is Simon Sinek: Author and leadership thinker behind Start With Why, Leaders Eat Last, and The Infinite Game, and one of the most-watched TED speakers on inspiring leaders and purpose-driven organizations. Simon Sinek makes the case that leadership, work, and life itself are infinite games where vision and service beat winning.
“cryptocurrency in the context of the history of money is fascinating I recommend a cent of money as a great book on this history”— Lex Fridman
The guest here is Alex Garland: British writer and director of philosophical science-fiction films including Ex Machina, Annihilation, and the series Devs. Known for weaving rigorous science and philosophy into mainstream cinema. Filmmaker Alex Garland and Lex Fridman explore AI, consciousness, free will, and the poetry of science behind Ex Machina, Annihilation, and Devs.
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