TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ferguson, Niall
TI  - The ascent of money: a financial history of the world
SN  - 9780141035482
U1  - 332.09 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - England
PB  - Penguin
KW  - Economic history
KW  - Money
KW  - Finance
KW  - Economics
KW  - International finance
KW  - History, Modern
KW  - Money--Political aspects
KW  - Finance, Public
N2  - 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
ER  -