The ascent of money: a financial history of the world
Material type: TextPublication details: England Penguin 2008Description: 442pISBN: 9780141035482Subject(s): Economic history | Money | Finance | Economics | International finance | History, Modern | Money--Political aspects | Finance, PublicDDC classification: 332.09 Summary: The Ascent of Money reveals finance as the backbone of history, casting a new light on familiar events: the Renaissance enabled by Italian foreign exchange dealers, the French Revolution traced back to a stock market bubble, the 2008 crisis traced from America's bankruptcy capital, Memphis, to China's boomtown, Chongqing. We may resent the plutocrats of Wall Street but, as Ferguson argues, the evolution of finance has rivaled the importance of any technological innovation in the rise of civilization. Indeed, to study the ascent and descent of money is to study the rise and fall of Western power itself.Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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332.042 GOV Governing globalization : issues and institutions | 332.042 INT International finance and development | 332.042 PIL/I International Finance | 332.09 FER/A The ascent of money: a financial history of the world | 332.095 1 SIW/F Financial reforms and developments in China | 332.095 4 AKH/N Non-banking Financial Companies (Nbfcs) in India Functioning and Reforms | 332.095 4 IND India's transforming financial sector |
The Ascent of Money reveals finance as the backbone of history, casting a new light on familiar events: the Renaissance enabled by Italian foreign exchange dealers, the French Revolution traced back to a stock market bubble, the 2008 crisis traced from America's bankruptcy capital, Memphis, to China's boomtown, Chongqing. We may resent the plutocrats of Wall Street but, as Ferguson argues, the evolution of finance has rivaled the importance of any technological innovation in the rise of civilization. Indeed, to study the ascent and descent of money is to study the rise and fall of Western power itself.
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