The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World - Brossura

Ferguson, Niall

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ISBN 10: 1846141923 ISBN 13: 9781846141928

Casa editrice: Allen Lane, 2008

Riassunto

A comprehensive account of the history of money, its place in and effects on global society, by the award-winning historian Niall Ferguson.

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Niall Ferguson is one of Britain's most renowned historians. He is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University, a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing. He has written fourteen books, including The House of Rothschild, Empire, The War of the World, The Ascent of Money, The Great Degeneration and Kissinger, 1923-1968: The Idealist. His many prizes include the Benjamin Franklin Prize for Public Service (2010), the Hayek Prize for Lifetime Achievement (2012) and the Ludwig Erhard Prize for Economic Journalism (2013).

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Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot: 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 labour. But in THE ASCENT OF MONEY, Niall Ferguson shows that finance is in fact the foundation of human progress.

With the clarity and verve for which he is famed, Niall Ferguson reveals financial history as the essential back-story behind all history. He explains why the origins of the French Revolution lie in a stock market bubble caused by a convicted Scots murderer. He shows how financial failure turned Argentina from the world's sixth richest country into an inflation-ridden basket case - and how a financial revolution is propelling the world's most populous country from poverty to power.

Yet the most important lesson of the financial history is that sooner or later every bubble bursts. And that's why, whether you're scraping by or rolling in it, there's never been a better time to understand the ascent of money.

Niall Ferguson is one of Britain's most renowned historians. He is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University, a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford University, and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. The bestselling author of Paper and Iron, The House of Rothschild, The Pity of War, The Cash Nexus, Empire, Colossus and The War of the World, he also writes regularly for publications all over the world. He has written and presented four highly successful television documentary series for Channel Four, most recently The Ascent of Money. He, his wife and three children divide their time between the United Kingdom and the United States.

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• Editore: Allen Lane
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1846141923
• ISBN 13: 9781846141928
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 432