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The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World (Hardcover)

  1. By Niall Ferguson (Author)
  2. Category: Business
  3. Publisher: Penguin (Nov 13, 2008)

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If you want to take the really long view, I highly
recommend Niall Ferguson’s The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World. With the clarity and verve for which this British historian is known, he shows us that sooner or later every bubble bursts and greed turns to fear. Significantly, he reveals financial history as the essential backdrop behind all history. What better time to understand the ascent of money?

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Niall Ferguson tells the human story behind the evolution of money, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest Wall Street upheavals. The author shows that finance is, in fact, the foundation of human progress.