OL20805193W Page_number_confidence 92.38 Pages 472 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.19 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20200912143025 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 382 Scandate 20200907051446 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781846141065 Tts_version 4. Urn:lcp:ascentofmoneyfin0000ferg:epub:af9ba640-0761-4d1b-8122-8863ce9704c1 Foldoutcount 0 Grant_report Arcadia #4117 Identifier ascentofmoneyfin0000ferg Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t5bd36s3s Invoice 1853 Isbn 9781846141065ġ410415333 Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_module_version 0.0.5 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA19210 Openlibrary_edition Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-397) and indexĭreams of avarice - Of human bondage - Blowing bubbles - The return of risk - Safe as houses - From empire to Chimerica - The descent of moneyĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 12:01:35 Boxid IA1928101 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Yet the central lesson of financial history is that, sooner or later, every bubble bursts.-From publisher description The rise of the Dutch republic is reinterpreted as the triumph of the world's first modern bond market over insolvent Habsburg absolutism. The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World Niall Ferguson 3.90 27,439 ratings1,758 reviews Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance. Through Ferguson's expert lens, for example, the civilization of the Renaissance looks very different: a boom in the market for art and architecture made possible when Italian bankers adopted Arabic mathematics. What's more, he reveals financial history as the essential backstory behind all history. But historian Ferguson shows that finance is in fact the foundation of human progress. To revolutionaries, it's the chains of labor. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals.

Ferguson the ascent of money