The ascent of money : a financial history of the world / Niall Ferguson.

By:

Ferguson, Niall

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London ; New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 2009.Description: v, 441 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 20 cmISBN:

014103548X
9780141035482

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

330.9 FER

Contents:

Dreams of avarice -- Of human bondage -- Blowing bubbles -- The return of risk -- Safe as houses -- From empire to Chimerica -- The descent of money.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	Moylish Library Main Collection	330.9 FER (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002100600544

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

'Dazzling . . . extraordinarily timely' Martin Vander Weyer, Spectator

Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot. Call if what you like, it matters now more than ever. In The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson shows that financial history is the back-story to all history.

From the banking dynasty who funded the Italian Renaissance to the stock market bubble that caused the French Revolution, this is the story of booms and busts as it's never been told before.

With the world in the grip of the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression, there's never been a better time to understand the ascent - and descent - of money.

'The best-timed book of the year . . . this is a fine, readable and entertaining history' Dominic Sandbrook, Daily Telegraph , Books of the Year

'The tales he tells of boom and bust, of triumph and disaster, of bubbles that inflate . . . are the very essence of financial history' Bill Emmott, Financial Times

'An often enlightening and enjoyable tour through the underside of great events, a lesson in how the most successful great powers have always been underpinned by smart money' Robert Skidelsky, New York Review of Books

Originally published: London : Allen Lane, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Dreams of avarice -- Of human bondage -- Blowing bubbles -- The return of risk -- Safe as houses -- From empire to Chimerica -- The descent of money.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Niall Ferguson was born April 18, 1964, in Glasgow. He is a Scottish historian. He specializes in financial and economic history as well as the history of empire. He is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University and the William Ziegler Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

His books include Paper and Iron: Hamburg Business and German Politics in the Era of Inflation 1897-1927 (1993), Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals (1997), The Pity of War: Explaining World War One (1998), The World's Banker: The History of the House of Rothschild (1998), The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000 (2001), Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power (2003), Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire (2004), The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West (2006) and The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World (2008), Civilization: The West and the Rest (2011) , The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die, and The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook.

(Bowker Author Biography)