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Uploaded on Jul 8, 2009

Niall Ferguson, Harvard professor, discusses the history -- and future -- of finance with Harvard Business Review editor-in-chief Adi Ignatius.

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  • 333daveallen

    because human ingenuity is infinite

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  • shovland

    Why does anyone think that infinite growth is possible on a finite planet?

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    The land accumulates the salty account.

    The coordinated manager discovers the jump.

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  • Nick Newborne

    people who go to harvard will take over the world

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  • JungWhan Kim

    unhappy marriages :D

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  • Connie Solidad

    It's always good to hear a bipartisan view on this. Thank you.

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  • haden uff

    too many people are trying to live on the pigs back. the pig has been on rations and unable to cope since the seventies and the infestation of the financial species of parrasite. it is already the walking dead. wanna fix the ecconomy? get a real job!!!!!! EARN your own money, or learn to live on a rotting carcase like the parrasites that governments, corporations and the so called educated classes have become.

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  • BeachofDreams

    Why can't you people just invest in businesses? There's equity there too - and its growth is not as unstable or risky.

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  • lifeemusicelife

    Well, are there not an infinite amount of points on a finite line segment? Infinite growth is absolutely possible, perhaps not at a constant rate, but yes at a decreasing one.

    

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  • mango119

    Way to go..way to go

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