The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
By Niall D. Ferguson. 2008
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Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot. Call it what you like, it matters now more than ever. In "The Ascent of Money", Niall Ferguson shows that finance is the foundation of all human progress and the lifeblood of history. From the cash injection that funded the Italian Renaissance to the stock market bubble that sparked the French Revolution, from the bonds that fueled Britain's war effort to the Wall Street Crash and today's meltdown, this is the story of boom and bust as it's never been told before. Whether you're scraping by or rolling in it, there's no better time to understand the ascent of money.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Finance
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- The Revenge of the Market on the Rentiers: Why neo-liberal Reports of the end of history turned out to be premature (Updated 19 December 2011) (2009, background): “According to Ferguson (2008), the inability of mainstream economists to understand the likelihood of financial crisis can only be the result of their lack of knowledge of financial history.”