this week kwasi kwarteng war and gold explores the history of money from its relationship to the warulting impact he believes the connection has on the present-day free markets worldwide. the program is about an hour. >> welcome to "after words." with me today is kwasi kwarteng born in london and here to discuss the new superb book warren gold a 500 year history of empires adventures and deaths. it's received great reviews already. it's enormously readable in a history that shows that past 500 years. it's great to have you here. this isn't usually the description that you get into strikes me as not really a politician's book that isn't designed to get you further up. why did you write it? >> i've always been interested in history and i have a doctorate in history and i think that when we look at what happened in 2,008 with the financial crisis, huge amounts of debate but today all looked at short-term perspectives. they were looking at the banks and hedge funds and credit derivatives and i thought let's take a step back and try to understand something about the global financial syste

this week kwasi kwarteng and his new book "war and gold." and it their member the british parliament explores the history of money, to relationship to war and the resulting impact he believes the interconnection as i'm president day free markets worldwide. the program is about an hour. >> host: welcome to "after words." i am toby harnden of "the sunday times" of london and with me today is kwasi kwarteng a conservative mp who was born in london and he is here to discuss his superb new book "war and gold" a 500-year history of empires, adventures and debt. it has received rave reviews already. my own paper described it as enormously readable and history which looks at the five hundred years is a rollicking narrative. it's narrative. it's good to have you here. rollicking is not usually description you get for her from politicians quotes and this strikes me as not really a politician's book. this is the designed to get you further up. why did he write it? >> guest: i have always been interested in history. i have also got a doctorate in histor

with day-to-day is kwasi kwarteng who was born in london and he is here to discuss his new book "war and gold" a 500-year history of empires, adventures, and debt." it has received rave reviews already and turning the past 500 years into a rollicking narrative. good to have you here. but is usually not the description you get for sure but thises decide to get you up? >> guest: my major was in history. but when they look at 2008, the financial of crisis loads of books but they all looked at short term perspectivesu3w they looked at the banks are the heads funds or credit derivatives. but i said take a step back about the global system of the policy is one of the features today is to remind people for 400 years we had a cold bath currency and then in 1971 when nixon famously went off that. >> host: you have an eye for the dramatic moment. >> but tell me about that moment when that was interrupted. >> that keep moment for any historical narrative that people just think oh my god this is what is happening. and august 15th on a sunday was that moment in interrupted bonanza. is then instru

. >> author and conservative member of british parliament kwasi kwarteng talks about the history of money, its relationship to war another to impact worldwide free markets saturday night at 10 on "after words," part of the tv this weekend on c-span2. this month honor on my book club we're discussing amity shlaes the forgotten man. start reading and join others to discuss the book in our chat room at booktv.org. booktv, television for serious readers. >> next, some of "foreign policy" magazine's top global thinkers of 2013 including a pakistani peace and women rights activists, an economics professor who helped debunk a leading economic report on austerity and a film maker. this is from the university of denver. >> go. >> well, welcome back. we are celebrating foreign policy magazines top 100 global thinkers in 2013, ma from the university of denver. the korbel school of their national study. i've to say that, just a couple of words about the university. yesterday we celebrated our 150th anniversary, which is -- [applause] >> and i cannot think of a better way of starting out our next 150

. >> author and conservative member of british parliament kwasi kwarteng talks about the history of money and its relationship to war saturday night on "afterwords." this month on our online book club, we are discussing "the forgotten man: a new history of the great depression." start reading and join others in our chat room to discuss. "washingtons journal," we looked at the legalization of marijuana, and throughout the day, we have been asking viewers to weigh in on facebook to the question -- are 295st poll numbers yes and 98 no. weigh in with your thoughts at facebook.com/cspan. of denver,ine colorado. that state the first in the nation to allow for colorado's recreational marijuana sales. it is taking the lead to learn about its experience not only since the start of the beginning of the year but up until now. joining us from colorado early this morning is been markets of of colorado public radio. thanks for joining us. pleasure to be here. thanks for having me. host: if you could set the stage for us how colorado set the stage for medical pot sales. as for recreational pot sales. sm

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