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The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World

Door Niall Ferguson

Categorie
Economie & Management
Boeknummer
#418243-XM35
Titel
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
Auteur
Ferguson, Niall
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
London : Penguin
Jaar van uitgave
2009
ISBN10
0718194004
ISBN13
9780718194000
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, 8vo.
Samenvatting
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.

'Beautifully written ... Breathtakingly clever' Sunday Telegraph

'A lucid and racy account of financial history' New Statesman

'A fine, readable and entertaining history' Dominic Sandbrook, Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year

'The ta... (Lees verder)les 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
Pagina's
441
Conditie
Goed — Top edge cover discoloured.
Prijs
€ 8,00

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