Risky business [videorecording] / written and presented by Niall Ferguson ; producer Joanna Potts ; Chimerica Media in association with Educational Broadcasting Corporation for Channel 4.
Imprint
Hamilton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2009.
Disc is a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD players or drives.
Language
Closed-captioned; in English with optional English subtitles.
Performer
Host, Niall Ferguson.
Credits
Editor, Orly Danon ; director of photography, Dewald Aukema ; composer, Steven Severin.
Note
Originally broadcast as an episode of the television program Ascent of money in 2008.
Summary
Travels to post-Katrina New Orleans to evaluate the free market's ability to help victims of the catastrophe. Examines early insurance schemes such as the Scottish Ministers' Widows Fund, and discusses the welfare state in post-WWII Japan as a measure against societal risks. Also studies the role played by economist Milton Friedman in Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship and the investment of Chilean workers' pensions as a form of risk management.
